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ITS  ORIGINAL  UNIVERSE  OF  FORCE. 


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LEONIDAS   SPRATT. 


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Dear  Sir  : 

I  beg  to  submit,  herewith,  the  preface  and  introduction 
to  a  work  in  deduction  of  terrestrial  phenomena  from  the 
hypothesis  of  an  original  reality  in  an  universe  of  force. 
The  special  object  is  to  show  that  there  is  a  nature  of  that 
reality  in  life  throughout  the  universe  of  which  man  himself 
is  in  continuation  of  this  earth,  and  this  ultimately  through 
unions  of  unequal  human  lerces  in  relations  of  inequality. 
But  the  general  and  prime  objective  cause  is  that  universe 
of  life  in  nature,  of  whose  existence  man,  in  such  continua- 
tion, is  conclusive  proof.  In  preparation  of  the  work,  how- 
ever, I  have  become  sensible  that  the  showing  I  make  is  not 
sufficient  to  establish  a  proposition  so  inadequately  stated, 
as  I  fear  this  is,  and  I  have  suspended  publication,  there- 
fore, for  advantage  of  such  contemporary  criticism  as  I  can 
get  upon  it,  and  any  notice  you  can  give,  be  it  favorable  or 
otherwise,  will  be  equally  servicable  and  as  thankfully 
received. 

Nor  will  it  be  altogether  gratuitous.  If  it  be  true  that 
there  is  reality,  it  is  as  true  that  of  this  there  is  nature,  and 
of  nature  man  in  continuation  of  nature  at  this  earth.  That 
reality,  therefore,  were  the  condition  of  science,  consisting 
in  the  inductions  of  terrestrial  phenomena.  It  were  also 
the  condition  of  philosophy,  consisting  in  deductions  from 
the  ultimate  hypothesis  established  by  inductions  of  phen- 
omena. x\nd  to  man,  but  the  provisional  product  of  his  own 
philosophy  and  science  of  this  earth,  it  is  obviously  import- 
ant that  he  find  whether  there  be  that  basis  for  his  science 
and  philosophy  or  not.  This  he  can  do  but  in  the  lights  of 
reasons  men  have  to  throw  on  it,  and  not  more  for  my  ow^i 
interest  than  the  interests  of  the  general,  I  ask  for  your 
suggestions  in  any  form  you  may  be  pleased  to  give  them. 

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IN  CONTINUATION  AT  THIS  EARTH 


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Nature  of  Reality  Tlirougliout  tlie  Universe 


BY 


TRADITION  OF   THAT   REALITY  FROM 
ITS  ORIGINAL  UNIVERSE  OF  FORCE. 


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MAN  IN  CONTINUATION  OF  NATURE. 


PEEFACE. 


The  following  papers  were  prepared  as  preface 
aDcl  introduction  to  an  argument  upon  the  subject  of 
"  Man  in  Continuation  of  Nature,"  but  they  liave 
become  voluminous  ;  and,  as  tJiey  contain  an  outline 
of  the  argument,  I  have  thought  it  best  to  publish 
them  to  themselves,  that  the  argument,  itself  heavy 
enough,  Avill  be  relieved  of  that  unnecessary  weight. 

LEONIDAS  SPRATT. 


To  MAN  the  truth  of  his  relation  to  nature  is  im- 
portant. There  is  a  course  of  being  Ave  term  nature 
through  stars,  sun,  earth,  plant,  and  animal  from  the 
universe  to  man  :  and  to  him  it  is  important  to  know 
whether  he,  also,  be  of  this  nature  or  not.  If  he  be, 
he  is  of  it  but  as  are  other  natures ;  and  to  be  but 
his  most  and  best  at  his  time  and  place  possible  ; 
and,  to  test  the  question  whether  he  be  of  nature  or 
not,  I  have  proposed  that  he  be  in  continuation  of 
nature.  He  can  be  in  continuation  of  nature  but  as 
he  be  of  nature.  But  he  can  be  of  nature  but  as  he 
be  in  the  course  of  the  resolutions  of  that  being  from 
the  universe  of  which  is  nature.  Of  this  he  can  be  but 
as  at  his  time  and  place  he  be  his  best  and  most ;  and 
this  simply :  and  as  a  crucial  test,  not  only  of  the 
truth  that  man  is  of  nature  but  that  he  is  in  nature 
but  to  be  his  most  and  best,  it  is  proposed  that  he  is 
in  continuation  of  nature.  And  to  this  it  is  con- 
tended that  there  is  reality.  That  there  is  infinite 
being  finite  ;  and  this  the  word  of  God  ;  and  this  an 
universe  of  force  of  which  at  this  earth  there  are  the 
physical    forces,    heat,    light,    electricity    and    mag- 


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PREFACE. 


PREFACE. 


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netism — dynamic  in  that  seeming  vacuum  we  term 
space  and  static  in  that  apparent  plenum   we  term 
matter — and  that  of  this  there  is  nature.     And  it  is 
intended  that  of  this  there  is  nature  ;  and,  fiivt,  for 
the  reason  that  there  is  a  nature  for  which  there 
were  no  other  source;  and  next  for  that  the  reality 
is  being  physiological,  and  capable,  as  such,  of  tele- 
ologic   evo-involution  into  the  beings  possible  from 
the  universe  to  man.     That  man  in  organic  matter 
at  this  earth  is  such  being  physiological  in  teleologic 
evo-involution  into  the  man  possible.     That  in  this 
he  is  in  continuation   at  this  earth   of  a  nature  of 
reality  throughout  the  universe.     And  that  this — the 
theory  of  man  in  continuation  of  nature — is  depend- 
ent for  its  truth   but  upon  the  condition  that  there 
be   such  original   reality   in    an    universe    of   force. 
And  that  while  there  is  no  such  reality  visible  to 
man  there  is  the  hypothesis  of  such  reality  as  the 
condition    of   every   phenomenon    to    man,  no    one 
of  which  were  possible,  or  other  than  the  miracle  of 
consequence  without  cause,  if  there  be  not  cause  in 
such  reality.     And  that  there  are  the  natures  from 
the  universe  to  man  inclusive   by  deduction   from 
such    hypothesis,  which  itself   were  the  miracle   of 
cause  without  consequence  if  there  be  not  such  na- 
tures as  truly  as  that  every  nature  were  the  miracle  of 
consequence  without  cause  if  there  be  not  cause  in 
such   hypothesis.     And  that  there  is   man  of  such 
nature  as  well  for  the  reason  that  he  were  else  the 
miracle  of  consequence  without  cause  as  for  that  he 


is  in  fact  such  being  physiological  in  teleologic  evo- 
involution  not  only  into  the  unilateral  man  of  a  sin- 
gle race  of  man  existing  now,  but  into  a  better  and 
more  abundant  man  of  unequal  races  in  relations  of 
inequality. 

It  is  contended  that  the  present  man  is  not  the  man 
possible — that  he  is  not  the  most  possible  or  the  best 
possible  that  he  be  his  most.  That  there  are  vast  tracts 
of  this  earth's  surface  unoccupied  by  man  ;  that  of 
that  occupied  there  is  scarce  an  acre  so  cultivated 
as  to  produce  its  most  in  support  of  man  ;  and  that 
there  is  room  enough  upon  this  earth  under  proper 
cultivation  for  a  million  to  the  one  of  man  upon  it 
now.  That  even  monognmic  man,  now  the  best,  from 
the  infirmities  of  his  social  constitution  cannot  ad- 
vance to  such  occupation  of  the  earth  ;  that  no  mono- 
gamic  state  can  long  survive  the  dominion  of  its  prole- 
tariate. That  this  is  the  power  to  administer  a  state 
in  these  who  do  not  furnish  a  means  to  its  support. 
That  this  is  a  lethal  agent  of  decadence  and  disso- 
lution. And  that  of  this  in  every  monogamic  state 
there  is  scarcely  the  period  of  maturity  before  the 
process  of  decadence  begins,  to  end  in  dissolution — 
with  no  state  surviving.  After  which  the  state  to 
populate  the  place  must  start  de  novo.  That  every 
such  state  is  without  the  conditions  of  a  constitu- 
tion ;  that  these  can  possibly  exist  but  in  a  state  of 
unequal  races  in  relations  of  inequality  ;  and  that 
of  such  states,  only,  is  there  to  be  the  ultimate  popu- 
lation of  this  earth. 


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PREFACi:. 


Tliere  are  now  unequal  orders  of  tlie  human  race. 
The  agamic  man  is  unequal  to  the  polygamic,  and 
the  polygamic  to  the  mouogamic  man,  in  their  re- 
spective al)ilities  to  procure  the  means  of  subsistence 
and  support.  But  the  greater  the  respective  differ- 
entiations from  the  neutral  human  being  intermediate 
the  greater  is  their  fitness  for  concurrence  in  such 
man.  As  upon  the  ineradicable  differences  of  par- 
ents male  and  female  depends  their  ability  to  unite 
iu  production  of  a  family,  so  different  are  the  agamic 
savages  of  Africa  and  the  monogamic  citizens  of  Eu- 
rope. And  it  is  intended  that  of  an  union  of  tliese 
races  there  were  bilateral  states  as  much  above  the 
simple  agamic  or  monogamic  state  as  is  the  family 
agamic,  polygamic,  or  monogamic  to  the  parents  who 
])roduce  it. 

Such  was  the  man  of  agamic  blacks  and  mono- 
gamic whites  lately  in  union  in  these  Southern  states. 
And  it  is  contended  that  such  union  of  such  races 
is  necessary  to  the  man  possible  and  that  in  this 
Southern  man  there  was  the  potency  and  promise  of 
the  largest,  best  and  most  abundant  man  this  world 
has  known.  And  that  this  is  not  an  inconsiderate 
conception,  or  an  expression  of  impatience  merely  at 
the  results  of  our  experiences,  or  even  an  after- 
thought from  consequences  however  these  be  fitted 
to  suggest  it,  but  is  a  matured  opinion  from  anxious 
consideration  of  the  subject,  my  utterances  and  ac- 
tivities in  that  period  before  the  war  when  issues 
were  made  up,  will  show. 


PREFACE. 


In  1853  I  had  charge  of  the  '*  Standard,"  a  paper 
at  Charleston,  S.  C. — of  no  great  importance — and 
fated  to  an  early  end,  and,  possibly,  through  my 
mismanagement, — though,  started  to  an  occasion,  it 
is  doubtful  if  it  could  have  long  survived  it.  Some 
years  before,  the  state  liad  nullified  an  act  of  con- 
gress and  from  compromises  offered  had  receded 
from  her  ordinance.  But  the  compromises  were  not 
kept.  It  was  complained  by  the  people  of  that  state 
that  the  tariff  acts  of  congress  in  protection  of  indus- 
tries at  the  North  were  of  injury  to  the  South.  And 
in  response  to  the  ordinance  by  another  act  of  con- 
gress the  evil  was  abated  somewhat,  but  by  later  acts 
the  duties  were  not  only  reimposed  but  increased. 
With  this  the  spirit  of  resistance  was  again  aroused, 
and, — the  sufficiency  of  nullification  having  become 
questioned, — the  measure  of  secession  was  proposed  ; 
and,  with  respect  to  this,  the  only  question  was, — 
or  seemed  to  be, — whether  this  state  should  await 
the  "  co-operation  "  of  other  Southern  states  or  go 
alone  ;  and  to  resist  the  separate  action  of  the  state 
the  Standard  was  established;  and  the  resistance 
was  successful. 

The  sense  of  the  state  expressed  in  1852  was 
against  the  measure  of  separate  state  action,  and, — 
the  Standard  of  victory  then  without  further  office, — 
I  was  at  liberty  to  adopt  what  policy  I  pleased.  And 
I  was  pleased  with  that  of  a  revival  of  tlie  foreign 
slave-trade, — at  least  to  the  extent  of  removing  from 
it  the  censures  and  restrictions  of  the  general  gov- 


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ernment.     The  foreigu  slave-trade  had  brought  the 
slaves  there  were  to  tlie  South,  but  had  been  sup- 
pressed as  piracy  by  act  of  congress  in    1808,   at 
which  time   the  states  admitting  slavery    were  the 
more  potent    and    progressive;  but   from  that  time 
forward  the  slave  states  advanced   but  by  natural 
increase  ;  and  the  "  free  "  states  as  they  were  called, 
by  this  and  by  an  average  of  near  250,000  pauper 
laborers  yearly  from  abroad.     In  each  there  was  its 
special  civilization,  and  that  of  the  North   had  thus 
become  the  stronger.     And  more  than  that,  it  had 
become  distinctively  proletariate  in  the  recognition 
of  the  right  of  those  to  rule  the  state  not  participat- 
ing  in  the   proprietary  contributions   to   sustain  the 
state. 

There  is  man,  as  I  have  said,  but  in  the  family 
agamic,  polygamic,  and  monogamic.  And  agamic  in 
the  children,  infant  and  adult,  about  a  store  of  pro- 
visions in  the  hands  of  their  unmarried  mother. 
And  polygamic  in  such  children  of  several  mothers 
about  a  store  in  the  hands  of  their  single  father. 
And  monogamic  in  such  children  of  a  single  mother 
about  a  store  in  the  hands  of  a  single  father.  And 
the  agamic  man  in  savage  stocks  ;  and  the  poly- 
gamic in  barbarous  tribes;  and  the  monogamic  in 
civil  states;  with  a  possible  man  in  an  union  o^ 
monogamic  and  agamic  families,  the  one  white  and  the 
other  black,  about  a  store  in  the  hands  of  the  white 
male  parent  and  master  to  sustain  them  both  in  one. 

And  as  in  theory  of  the  monogamic  state,— the 


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onlv  one  to  be  considered, —  there  is  this  but  of  mon- 
ogamic  families, — and  these  in  subsistence  and  safety 
but  upon  a  store  of  provisions  in  the  hands  of  the 
male  parent, — the  state  itself  can  be  in  subsistence 
and  safety  but  upon  a  store  contributed  by  pro- 
prietary male  parents,  who  only  therefore  can  right- 
fully have  suffrage  with  respect  to  it.  And  in  result 
of  such  proprietary  parental  suffrage  in  application 
of  such  store  to  the  uses  of  the  state  there  is  its 
government  to  be  termed  patriate.  But  from  indo- 
lence, inefficiency,  calamity,  or  crime,  parents  cease 
to  be  proprietary  witl  out  forfeiture  of  franchise ; 
and  adult  males,  not  });.reuts,  acquire  the  right  to 
vote ;  and — if  this  be  not  enough  to  the  dissolu- 
tion of  the  state — adult  females  must  acquire  that 
right ;  and  if  this  be  not  enough,  infants,  male  and 
female,  must  acquire  that  right ;  so  that  in  time  there 
comes  to  be  a  very  large  majority  of  these  not  con- 
tributing to  the  support  of  the  state  who  have  power 
to  dispose — and  to  their  own  uses — of  the  fund  upon 
which  the  state  subsists  :  That  majority  in  every 
monogamic  state  becomes  the  state.  There  is  no 
restriction  of  its  volition  in  a  constitution  it  inter- 
prets. It  is  an  intrusive  and  abnormal  being,  there- 
fore, and  not  in  support  but  in  subversion  of  the 
state,  which  therefore  becomes  the  car  for  all  to  ride 
on  but  none  to  pull ;  and  its  government  a  game  of 
pool,  at  which  the  players  order  the  propertied  party 
to  put  up  the  stakes  they  play  for. 

The  state  under  the  proprietary  parents  who  sup- 


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port  the  state  is  a  state  of  offspring  controlled  by 
parents  and  termed  patriate.  The  state  under  those 
who  do  not  support  it  is  one  of  parents  controlled 
by  offspring.  And  the  one  the  patriate^  the  other  is 
WiQi  j)'^^^^timate  state  ;  and  as  the  proclivities  of  indi- 
vidual interests  are  resistless ;  as  every  being  in 
nature  is  ciiarged  with  the  continuation  of  its  own 
existence  without  the  power  to  exist  for  any  other  ; 
and  as  to  this  rule  the  man  is  no  exception,  as  he  can- 
not of  thought  add  a  cubit  to  his  stature,  or  at  his 
time  and  place  be  otlier  than  he  is  or  originate  a 
motive  to  his  own  volition — this  proletariate  must 
loot  the  patriate  state.  The  wage-earner  will  have 
more  pay  for  less  work.  Industries  combining  will 
be  protected  at  the  expense  of  others  ;  pensions  will 
be  allowed  and  drawn  under  every  possible  pretext 
of  service  ;  salaried  men  and  millionaires  will  make 
visible  investments  but  in  property  abroad,  or  in 
the  bonds  of  the  government  not  taxed  ;  and  men 
and  women  will  quit  the  continuation  of  their  race 
on  marriage  for  sensual  indulgences  without  it.  Such 
and  so  proletariate  in  principle  were  the  states  of  the 
]Sorth  at  the  time  referred  to.  And  that  proletariate 
practically  supreme  in  every  Northern  state  was  also 
in  virtue  of  their  larger  population  soon  to  be  su- 
preme in  congress,  and  taking  what  it  wanted 
through  the  legislatures  of  the  Northern  states  it  was 
about  to  take  through  congress  what  it  wanted  of  the 
South.  Against  this  there  was  no  appeal  even  to  its 
lucid  moments,  which  could  not  possibly  occur.     And 


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11 


it  was  as  remorseless  as  fate  for  the  reason  simply  that 
it  was  as  blind.  Of  this  was  the  House  of  Commons 
in  1832,  which  could  see  in  the  reform  bill  but  that 
upon  this  depended  the  re-election  of  its  members. 
And  of  this  the  Lords,  who  could  see  but  that  upon 
this  depended  their  exemption  from  a  deluge  of  new- 
created  peers.  And  of  this  the  judges  of  the  supreme 
court  of  the  United  States,  who,  after  a  week  of 
oratory,  could  see  but  as  they  saw  at  first,  that  Mr. 
Hayes  was  of  the  proletariate  faction  represented  by 
the  one  part  of  that  body  and  Mr.  Tilden  of  that  repre- 
sented by  the  other,  and  that  tUere  was  nothing  to  be 
done  but  to  let  the  decision  rest  upon  their  respective 
numbers.  And  such  the  proletariate, — an  inverted  na- 
ture to  extinguish  human  life  and  a  lethal  reptile  to 
form  and  crawl  and  feed  upon  the  vitals  of  the  state 
as  larval  insects  feed  upon  the  carcass  of  their  host, — 
against  this  there  was  resistance  but  in  counter  ac- 
tion  ;  and  this  but  in  the  introduction  of  another  race 
sufficient  for  the  offices  of  labor  under  a  higher  race 
but  without  participation  in  its  direction.  Such  I 
assumed  to  be  the  negro  under  the  whites  in  the 
Southern  states ;  and, — with  such  a  population  of  a 
weaker  in  subordination  to  a  stronger  race  of  man, — 
that  no  proletariate  in  any  monogamic  state  could 
form. 

I  was  assured  that  with  that  trade  reopened  there 
would  have  been  slaves  at  importers'  prices  and  that 
at  these  every  capable  white  man  could  and  would 
have  owned  his  slave.     That  so  he  had  been  a  slav- 


12 


PREFACE. 


PREFACE. 


13 


ery  propagandist, — that  there  would  have  been  own- 
ers not  only  at  the  South  but  to  the  North  of  the 
line  between  the  States  ;  and  that  with  greater  in- 
tegrity than  had  been  greater  territory  to  the  South. 
Nor  was  it  necessary  that  the  trade  should  have  been 
reopened  by  the  South :  legitimated,  northern  capi- 
tal had  imported  slaves  to  tlie  utmost  requisition 
North  or  South.  And  so  in  considering  the  fortunes 
of  the  South  it  seemed  to  her  material  interests  at 
least  that  the  trade  should  be  legitimated.  And 
it  was  becoming,  also,  that  it  should  be.  If  the 
trade  were  piracy  the.  slave  was  }>lunder,  and  it  was 
not  only  unbecoming  but  immoral  to  hold  prop- 
erty the  procurement  of  which  was  justly  branded 
as  a  crime,  and  our  acquiescence  in  the  action  of 
the  government  imposing  such  brand  was  an  admis- 
sion of  its  justice. 

Nor  did  it  seem  that  even  the  proletariate  North 
would  seriously  oppose  the  removal  of  the  brand. 
It  wanted  and  was  bound  to  havt^  what  it  could  take 
by  proletariate  legislation  from  the  South  ;  and  the 
richer  and  fatter  that  might  be  the  better.  And  the 
South  had  been  richer  and  the  Union  richer  from 
the  importation  of  foreign  slaves.  They  would  have 
supplied  the  want  of  slaves  at  the  South  quite  inad- 
equate to  her  possible  industries  and  to  the  requisi- 
tions of  a  growing  West,  and  they  would  have  come 
in  the  place  of  pauper  laborers  from  abroad  and  had 
been  more  productive  and  not  in  competition  with 
wage-earners  at   the  North  but  to  their  support,  the 


every  one  of  whom  could  and  would  have  owned  his 
slave  at  importers'  prices  ;  and  they  could  and  would 
have  taken  bleeding  Kansas  and  extended  slavery 
from  Missouri  to  the  Pacific,  and  probably  north- 
ward to  the  line  of  Canada. 

It  is  possible  that  upon  this  extended  state  the 
proletariate  then  existing  in  the  republican  party 
would  have  lost  its  grip.  But  of  this  danger  it  would 
have  been  unconscious.  And  I  am  quite  assured 
that  if  the  South  had  presented  to  the  North  the 
alternative  of  the  slave-trade  or  secession,  the  North 
would  have  readily  accepted  the  slave-trade  and 
that  our  differences  had  been  composed.  The  North 
would  have  persisted  in  a  sectional  presidency, 
but  the  significance  of  that  movement  would  have 
been  different.  The  South,  satisfied  with  the  ulti- 
mate security  of  her  civilization,  would  have  been  in- 
difierent  to  such  movement,  and  even  have  given  her 
vote  as  she  had  often  done  to  a  Northern  man ; 
and  instead  of  a  proletariate  without  a  constitution 
other  than  that  the  proletariate  may  interpret  to  its 
uses,  there  had  been  a  state  with  a  constitution  the 
best  possible  and  the  only  constitution  to  a  mono- 
gamic  people  possible,  and  this  in  the  ineradicable 
difi'erences  of  unequal  races  united  in  relations  of 
inequality. 

But  the  merit  of  this  policy  was  in  its  adoption, 
only,  at  that  time  :  and  convinced  then  of  its  im- 
portance as  I  am  now,  and  that  the  peace,  safety, 
fortunes,  and  the  fate  of  this  republic  depended  on 


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14: 


PKKPWCE. 


it,  with  li  wearying  pertinacity  I  did  to  its  adop- 
tion what  I  could.  I  put  it  before  the  South  hy 
articles  in  my  ow^n  paper  and  before  the  South  and 
North  by  articles  so  written  as  to  force  their  entrance 
to  the  Herald,  Times  and  Tribune,  and  to  its 
popular  consideration  I  kept  it  for  years  before 
the  commercial  conyention  of  the  Southern  states. 
There  had  been  an  annual  conyention  of  Southern 
gentlemen  to  questions  of  Southern  policy  before 
whom  at  Savannah  in  1856  I  placed  the  resolution 
that  as  a  measure  of  Southern  policy  the  trade  be 
reopened.  This  was  debated  for  the  week  to  the  ex- 
clusion of  other  subjects,  and  again  at  Knoxyille  in 
1857,  and  at  Montgomery  in  1858,  and  at  Vicksburg 
in  1859,  where  it  was  finally  adopted  and  referred  as 
an  expression  of  Southern  sentiment  to  Southern 
people. 

But  before  there  was  more  decisive  action  Mr. 
Lincoln  was  elected  as  a  sectional  president ;  and 
there  was  secession ;  and  the  holding  of  Fort  Sumter; 
and  the  firing  on  it  consequent ;  and  invasion,  and  the 
war,  and  subjugation  of  the  South  and  the  liberation 
of  lier  slaves ;  and  this  to  the  general  satisfaction,  it 
would  seem,  of  this  country  and  the  world. 

The  proletariate  North  is  satisfied  as  nearly  as 
that  monster  may  be  in  the  millions  of  money  it  may 
take  to  protected  industries  and  pensions.  And  the 
South,  now  as  proletariate  as  the  North,  is  satisfied — 
as  many  of  her  distinguished  men  declare — at  least 
in  her  freedom  from  an  odious  institution  and  her 


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15 


admission  to  the  swim  of  a  proletariate  democracy. 
And  the  Avorld  generally  is  satisfied  with  the  estab- 
lishment here  of  a  proletariate  state, — for  the  reason 
expressed  that  it  is  matter  they  had  nothing  to  do 
with, — but  for  the  real  reason  that  all  monogamic 
states  are  becoming  <ms  proletariate  as  this ;  and 
that  in  all  the  monogamic  W'Orld,  at  least,  there  has 
been  satisfaction  at  the  subjugation  of  the  South  in  her 
effort  to  sustain  a  counteraction  to  such  proletariate. 
But  believing  tJiat  that  tendency  prevails  in  every 
monogamic  state ;  and  that  it  is  death  to  the  state 
as  the  patriate  is  life  ;  and  that  the  South  was  in 
travail,  not  for  herself  but  humanity,  in  sustaining 
the  relation  of  inequality  among  unequals, — the  one 
sole  condition  upon  which  man  can  rise  to  a  civili- 
zation better  than  that  consisting  in  the  existence  of 
the  state  under  the  inflictions  of  a  popular  or  otlier 
irresponsible  power  sensil)le  of  its  immediate  wants 
but  unconscious  of  its  ulterior  interests  in  the  pres- 
ervation of  the  state — however  unimportant  or  unin- 
teresting the  fact  may  be,  I  did  not  then  and  do  not 
now  concur  in  that  accord  and  satisfaction  so  gen- 
erally expressed. 

I  did  not  and  do  not  see  that  the  white  race  at  the 
South  could  or  can  sustain  itself  to  its  earlier  moral 
elevation  without  the  physical  supports  of  a  weaker 
race ;  or  that  the  negro  here  could  or  can  sustain 
himself  to  continued  existence  in  competition  with 
the  whites  ;  or  that  he  could  be  deported,  or  that  he 
could  perpetuate  his  black  race  by  its  miscegenation 


16 


PRKFACK. 


with  the  white  ;  or  that   wliile  the  one  race  was  low- 
ered the  other  was  not  to  be  exterminated.     Nor 
did  I  see  but  that  the  Northern  states  themselves, 
discharged  of  the  supports  of  such   Southern   civi- 
lization, were  more   irrevocably  turned  to   the  pro- 
letariate, which  would  not  spare  them  if  it  could  and 
could  not  if  it   would,  more  than  the  larval   insects 
could   spare   the  carcass   of   their  host,  or   than  the 
Roman  proletariate  the  state  of  Rome.     The  Roman 
proletariate  in  possession  of  the  Roman  state  through 
the  consul   appointed  by   its  preoccupation  of  the 
torum  on  the  day  of  the  election  demanded  of  the 
consul  so  appointed  corn  and  wine  and  oil  from  Asia 
and  Africa,  and  shows  and  gladiatorial  exhibitions  to 
amuse  it  on  its  delirious  way  to  its  own  destruction 
and  the  dissolution  of  the  state. 

And  this  proletariate,  possessed  of  the  legislatures 
of  the  states,  and  congress  through  preoccupation  of 
precincts  on  the  days  of  election,  must  demand  indul- 
gences equally  fatal  to  the  state  as  to  themselves. 
I  doubt  if  there  be  a  legislator,  judge  or  governor 
in  all  these  states  in  office  for  reasons  of  his  admit- 
ted virtues,  but  in  spite  of  them ;  or  that  there  is 
one  who  will  continue  in  office  after  it  is  found  he 
will  not  do  the  work  for  which  he  was  elected.  And 
for  these  reasons  and  apart  from  my  personal  ex- 
periences and  disappointments  in  the  matter  I  am 
not  satisfied  that  the  North  has  so  suppressed  the 
civilization  of  the  South.  But  believing  that  it  was 
a  calamity  to  the  South  and  an  injury  to  the  North, 


PREFACE. 


17 


and  a  wTong  to  that  man  in  nature  of  this  universe 
whom  God  intended  and  whom  God  intends,  and 
that  it  rolled  back  that  tide  of  time  which  was  bearing 
unnumbered  blessings  to  the  present  man,  I  submit 
this  argument  de  heiie  esse  and  for  what  it  may  be 
worth  to  the  truth  of  that  belief. 

It  will  not  be  popular.  It  proposes  an  impersonal 
God  and  that  man  to  his  being  possible  must  submit 
to  inequalities  in  that  being  possible  ;  and  to  neither 
of  these  propositions  is  proletariate  man  inclined, 
and  to  him  the  proposition  is  addressed. 

There  is  no  state  of  Europe  or  America  not  mono- 
gamic  of  a  single  race  ;  and  no  such  state  not  pro- 
letariate in  its  administration  by  these  not  contribut- 
ing the  fund  upon  which  the  state  subsists.  In  the 
constitutional  kingdoms  of  Europe  there  are  the 
traditions  of  their  polygamic  states.  Their  kings 
and  lords,  however  they  may  be  named,  are  the  con- 
sequences without  cause,  if  they  be  not  consequences 
by  tradition  from  antecedent  tribal  states  existing  but 
of  polygamic  man.  These  are  not  in  representation 
of  the  funds  they  contribute  to  the  state  but  of  a 
power  to  dispose  them  to  their  uses ;  nor  the  more 
is  the  Commons,  supreme  in  England,  or  the  legis- 
lature of  the  states  and  the  congress  of  this  Union — 
no  member  of  whom  is  in  his  place  but  by  suffrage 
of  those  not  contributing  the  fund  administered. 
And  the  forum  I  address  is  as  proletariate,  therefore, 
as  was  that  of  Rome,  in  which  by  preoccupying  the 
forum  it  determined  the  consul  through  whom  it 
was  allowed  the  plunder  of  that  state.  . 


i 


IS 


PREFACE. 


And  this  man  will  not  accept  an  impersonal  God. 
Such  God  can  only  hold  his  universe  of  life  and  na- 
ture to  the  resolutions  of  its  life  into  the  natures  of 
it  possible  and  into  man  at  this  earth  as  to  natures 
intermediate,  in  consistence  with  which  the  man  only 
can  live,  who,  complying  with  the  conditions  at  his 
time  and  place,  should  live.     But  to  the  individual 
man  this  justice  is  not  what  he  wauts,  but  favor  ;  and 
all  are  induced  by  their  solicitudes  to  feel  that  there 
is  a  precable  anthropomorphic  being  in  moral  like- 
ness of  themselves  who  by  proper  incantations  can 
be   made  to   turn  the  scales  of  justice  to  mercy  for 
them,  however  it  be  in  wrath  to  others.     And  they 
cannot  favor  the  truth,  whatever  the  reason  for  it, 
that   defeats    them    of   such    God.      Nor  the  more 
readily  can  they  accept  the  equally  offensive  truth 
that  they  are  to  take  but  that  position  they  can  get 
by  merit  in  the  states  of  man.     He  insists  that  he 
may  supplement  his  merit  by  address.     He  has  no 
repugnance  to  inequalities  of  position  provided  some 
other  be  subordinate  to  him,  but  he  has  great  repug- 
nance to  the  truth  that  he  may  be  subordinate  to 
some  one  else.     In  analysis  of  the  proletariate  there  is 
agrarianism  ;  and  of  agrarianism  anarchy ;  and  of  an- 
archy,— not  that  there  be  not  upper  and  lower  classes, 
but  that   there   be    not   a   class   above  the   one  in 
which  is  the  anarchist  himself,  who  were  miserable 
there  if  there  be  not  some  below  him.     And  the  man 
of  this  age  generally  cannot  accept  of  either  propo- 
sition but  in  sacrifice   of  feelino;s  he  will  not  make. 


' 


J. 


PREFACE. 


19 


But  whatever  be  his  feeling  he  must  accept  it  if  it 
be  true.  And  it  is  true  not  only  that  there  is  an 
impersonal  God  and  man  in  inequalities  but  that 
there  is  such  man  in  continuation  of  the  nature  of 
the  universe  if  there  be  nature  ;  and  that  there  is 
nature  if  there  be  God,  or  being  finite,  or  force,  or 
space,  or  matter,  or  life,  or  nature,  or  the  universe, 
or  star,  or  sun,  or  earth,  or  plant,  or  animal,  or  man, 
or  conscience  in  man,  or  ideality  in  conscience, — not 
one  of  which  were  possible,  or  other  than  the  miracle 
of  cause  without  consequence  or  consequence  with- 
out cause  if  there  be  not  such  nature  of  which  man 
is  so  in  continuation  at  this  earth. 

Since  the  fall  of  slavery  here  such  man  of  unequal 
races  may  not  recur  at  once,  but  man  is  destined  to 
an  extended  period  of  existence  at  this  earth.  States 
will  fall  as  will  individuals,  but  the  race  will  roll  on 
and  with  accumulating  volume  while  there  are  yet  at 
this  earth  the  conditions  of  human  existence,  and 
tiie  truth  can  wait ;  as  that  of  this  earth  upon  the 
sun  ;  and  of  the  plant  upon  the  earth ;  and  of  the 
animal  upon  the  plant ;  and  of  man  upon  the  animal ; 
and  of  polygamic  upon  agamic  man  ;  and  of  mono- 
gamic  upon  polygamic  man.  And  that  when  the 
history  of  these  states  shall  have  been  lost  in  a  fab- 
ulous antiquity,  if  not  sooner,  there  will  be, — and 
upon  this  soil, — a  people  of  human  races  so  related : 
and  this  as  abundant  in  blessings  and  as  prodigal  in 
promise  as  were  lately  the  people  of  these  Southern 
states,  themselves  at  their  time  the  most  abundant 


20 


PRKFACE. 


of  blessings  and  prodigal  of  promise  the  sun  has 
ever  shone  on. 

Such  is  the  proposition  of  man  at  this  earth  in 
continuation  of  a  nature  of  reality  throughout  the 
universe  by  tradition  of  an  original  reality  in  force 
of  the  finite  word  of  God.  It  intends  that  of  the 
reality  in  resolution  there  is  nature  ;  and  from  the 
universe  to  man  ;  and  that  man  is  of  nature ;  and  in 
continuation  of  nature  to  the  man  possible ;  and 
him  the  most  and  best  man  possible  that  he  be  his 
most.  And  it  is  intended  that  the  truth  of  this  prop- 
osition is  contingent  but  upon  the  truth  of  that  hy- 
pothesis. 

Intending  that  there  is  reality  of  the  word  of  God 
in  an  universe  of  force,  it  intends  that  this  is  being 
physiological ;  and  this  the  being  possible  of  kin- 
dred beings  different  of  their  reciprocal  affinities  sim- 
ply in  reciprocal  limitations  of  each  other,  in  wheels 
of  being  static  in  revolutions  on  axes  of  beings  dy- 
namic ;  that  these  are  in  teleologic  evo-involution  ; 
and  that  of  the  phj'siological  universe  of  these  in  such 
resolution  there  are  stars  about  the  axes  of  the  uni- 
verse, and  suns  about  the  stars,  and  the  earth  about 
the  sun,  and  the  plant  about  the  earth,  and  the  ani- 
mal about  the  plant,  and  the  man  about  the  animal, 
of  whom  in  such  process  continued,  there  is  agamic 
man  of  the  animal,  and  polygamic  of  agamic  man, 
and  monogamic  of  polygamic  man,  and  that  there  is, 
or  is  to  be,  compound  man  in  an  union  of  unequal 
races  of  the  pre-existing  race  ;  and  that  in  these  there 


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21 


is  nature,  and  that  these  are  natures,  and  that  each 
is  but  the  nature  possible  of  life  into  it  from  the 
universe  in  resolution. 
I  It  intends  that  each  nature  is  static  being  and  in 

life  of  motive  from  the  dynamic  axis  of  the  universe, 
and  that  of  such  motive  it  is  the  nature  possible. 

And  intended  that  motive  is  cause  and  nature  con- 
sequence, it  is  intended  that  each  such  successive 
nature  possible  is  the  consequence  possible  of  cause 
possible  in  such  motive  to  produce  it ;  and  that  in 
this  there  is  to  each  nature  but  the  cause  possible ; 
and  in  each  nature  but  the  consequence  possible  of 
that  creative  cause  ;    and   that  other,   or  more,   or 
less   than   the    cause    possible    to    the    nature    pos- 
ujible  of  that  cause  were  the  miracle  of  cause  with- 
out   consequence;    and    that    other,    or    more,    or 
less   than  the    nature  possible  of   that   cause    pos- 
sible were  the  miracle  of  consequence  without  cause. 
And  intended  that  motive  is  life  and  life  cause,  it  is 
intended,  and  for  the  same  reason,  that  there  is  life  but 
to  nature  possible,  and  nature  but  of  life  possible,  and 
that  every  nature  therefore  is  simply  to  its  most  pos- 
sible, and,  to  its  best  possible,  that  it  be  its  most  of 
the    life    possible    in     tradition     from   the   universe 
of  force ;  and  that  such  simply  is   man ;  that  he  is 
hut  the  nature   possible   l)ut   of  his  life  possible  as 
cause  through   nature ;  and  that  this   cause  in  man 
were   the   miracle  of  cause   without  consequence  if 
there  be  not  ultimately  in  nature  the  man  possible ; 
and  if  in  being  so  he  be  not  his  most  possible  and 


22 


PREFACE. 


his  best  possible  that  he  be  his  most.  And  such  the 
proposition  of  man  in  continuation  of  nature  it  is 
presented  as  a  crucial  test  of  man's  relation  to  nature 
which  I  have  said  it  is  important  he  should  know, 
and  also  to  emphasize  the  truth  that  he  is  in  nature ; 
and  in  nature  but  to  his  ends  in  nature  ;  and  to  his  ends 
in  nature  but  in  consistence  with  the  conditions  of 
his  being  thus  the  most  abundant  man  possible  ;  and 
the  best  man  possible  that  he  be  the  most  abundant ; 
and  it  had  been  policy,  perhaps,  to  have  presented 
this  theory  in  parts. 

There  are  men  of  science  and  philosophy  who  are 
forced  to  accept  nature  from  an  universe  of  life  in 
force,  and  man  from  nature,  but  who  are  not  so  forced 
to  project  man  to  the  man  possible ;  and  there  are 
men  not  of  speculation  but  of  work  in  being  possible 
to  whom  it  is  important  to  know  what  the  possible 
of  man  is,  that  they  may  work  up  to  it.  To  the  one 
of  these  the  theory  of  nature,  only,  of  man  in  nature 
were  apt  to  be  interesting ;  to  the  others  the  means 
and  ends  of  man  in  nature,  only,  were  apt  to  be  so, 
and  the  science  of  the  past  were  as  inapt  to  accept 
the  business  of  the  future  as  the  business  of  the  future 
to  accept  the  science  of  the  past.  And  if  1  were  con- 
cerned about  the  profits  or  the  popularity  of  my  work 
it  had  been  policy  %  doubtless,  to  have  given  it  in  parts, 
and  to  men  in  science  and  in  business  the  subjects  they 
would  consider  without  the  others  that  they  would 
not.  But  without  pretending  to  excessive  magna- 
nimity, I  am  more  concerned  about  the  future  for- 


PREFACE. 


23 


tunes  of  the  race  of  man  than  the  popularity  or  profits 
of  this  eff'ort  to  address  him,  and  assured  that 
man  will  ultimately  attain  to  his  possible  fortunes, 
and  this  through  the  union  of  unequal  races  I  sug- 
gest, I  am  yet  assured  he  will  the  more  readily  do  so 
under  the  proclivities  of  a  preconception  of  that 
state. 

If  when  I  first  proposed  the  foreign  slave-trade  to 
the  further  progress  of  man  in  this  state  of  states 
united, — and  of  man  in  other  states  under  the  trac- 
tile force  of  its  example, — T  could  have  fixed  in  the 
minds  of  its  people  a  sense  of  the  truth  that  in  such 
anion  of  unequal  races  as  there  was  in  the  Southern 
states  there  was  the  way  to  a  higher  and  better  state 
of  man  than  had  been,  the  North  had  not  so  warred 
upon  the  South,  the  South  had  not  been  forced  to  so 
resist  the  North ;  a  modus  vivendi  had  been  estab- 
lished ;  and  not  only  would  the  calamities  of  the  war 
have  been  averted  but  incalculable  ages  had  been 
added  to  the  life  in  nature  of  this  republic.  Grand  as  it 
now^  is  in  the  plenitude  of  its  unorganized  life  into  na- 
ture possible,  it  is  unreasonable  that  its  nature  now 
provisionally  possible  can  long  survive  the  ferments  of 
dissolution  now  at  work  upon  it.  Unilateral  of  but 
a  single  race,  with  no  constitution  other  than  that 
consisting  in  the  resolutions  of  such  single  race, — 
as  potent  to  control  its  action  as  are  the  resolutions 
of  the  individual  he  at  any  time  may  reconsider, — it 
is  unreasonable  that  under  such  paper  constitution 
simply  it  can  resist  to  its  ends, — otherwise  possible, — 


I 


24 


PREFACE. 


the  party  in  power  that  would  use  it  to  its  ends  ; 
but  under  a  constitution  of  ineradicably  different 
races  combined  to  the  ends  of  a  common  subsist- 
ence and  safety  among  other  peoples  not  so  situated, 
and  to  whom  such  constitution,  therefore,  is  now 
and  for  the  time  at  least  impossible,  there  is  no  rea- 
son why  the  states  of  the  South  should  not  have 
been  as  enduring  as  her  hills,  or  why  the  states  of 
the  North,  associated  with  such  stable  Southern 
states,  had  not  been  as  enduring  as  these  states  of 
the  South  themselves.  This  opportunity  was  lost ; 
but  in  the  countless  ages  of  man's  existence  yet  upon 
this  earth  it  may  and  must  occur  again.  The  pro- 
clivities of  a  preconception  of  this  truth  must  act  then 
as  it  would  have  lately  here,  and  it  is  important  that 
it  be  tixed  upon  the  mind  of  man.  It  can  be  so  fixed 
by  its  association  with  the  truth  of  a  nature  of  reality 
in  which  is  man,  who  cannot  otherwise  than  attain 
to  his  ends  but  in  relations  of  inequality.  And  con- 
cerned but  in  the  fortunes  of  man,  with  the  assur- 
ance that  nature — as  she  has  done — can  take  care  of 
herself,  I  forego  what  of  advantage  there  might  have 
been  in  serving  my  entertainment  in  parts  to  tlie 
tastes  of  those  inclined  to  partake  of  it,  and  will 
allow  no  one  to  accept  the  promises  of  a  nature  in 
the  resolutions  of  an  universe  of  force  w  ho  does  not 
also  accept  man  in  his  way  to  the  man  possible 
through  an  ultimate  union  of  unequal  races  to  that 
end. 

And  such  the  proposition  that  there  is  a  man  in 


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25 


continuation  of  nature  so  tediously  stated,  it  may 
seem  that  the  argument  to  support  it  might  now 
begin  ;  but  its  truth  is  for  man's  consideration.  He 
it  is  who  at  the  present  time  must  accept  it  or  reject 
it.  Every  nature  from  the  universe  to  man  accepts 
its  nature  thankfully  in  the  resolutions  of  an  uni- 
verse of  force,  and  man  unconsciously  accepts  his 
life  in  nature  and  his  nature  therefore  from  the  same 
source,  but,  consciously,  he  knows  no  more  of  nature 
than  he  learns  from  his  idealities  of  such  realities  ; 
he  does  not  see  natures  but  only  the  images  of  na- 
tures reflected  from  his  conscience  of  them, — as  to 
the  astronomer  are  stars  and  planets  by  his  concave 
mirror, — and  midway  between  impressions  and  the 
objects  to  produce  them,  and  without  the  sense  that 
his  idealities  are  of  the  same  cause  as  that  of  which 
are  the  realities  that  cause  them  ; — he  has  the  feel- 
ing that  while  nature,  whatever  that  may  be,  is  cause 
of  the  objective  realities,  he  himself  is  cause  of  his 
subjective  idealities,  and  of  the  volitions  and  activities 
they  inspire,  and  of  the  families,  stocks,  tribes  and 
states  of  man,  therefore,  into  which  he  enters. 

And  the  argument  cannot  now  begin  for  the  reason 
that  I  must  make  it  in  terms  of  realitv,  and  man  can  ac- 
cept  it  but  in  terms  of  his  idealities  ;  and  in  argument 
I  must  use  the  terms  "  being  finite,"  "  God,"  "  force," 
''  matter,"  "  life,"  "  nature,"  "  universe,"  "  star,"  ''sun," 
''  earth,"  "  plant,"  "  animal,"  "  man,"  and  ''  idealities," 
"  families,"  "  stocks,"  "  tribes,"  and  "  states  of  man," 
as  descriptive  of  realities  objective  in  teleologic  evo- 
involutions  of  an  universe  of  force ;  while  man  must 


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PREFACE. 


accept  them  but  as  descriptive  of  his  idealities  of  these 
whose  meanings  are  determined  but  as  they  have 
been  agreed  upon,  with  but  a  vague  conception  of 
the  Hmits  of  such  agreements.  The  argument  there- 
fore were  not  more  interesting  or  intelligible  than 
were  an  oration  in  Greek  to  an  English  audience. 
And  to  settle  the  grounds  of  argument  in  the  defini- 
tions of  terms  I  must  give,  and  at  even  greater  length, 
what  may  be  termed  an  introduction.  And  T  do  this, 
however  reluctantly',  from  the  feeling  that  as  there  is 
occasion  for  this  argument  at  all  there  is  occasion 
for  the  preliminary  statements  necessary  to  its  being 
understood,  and  these  in  definite  indications  of  the 
differences  there  are  between  the  terms  of  realitv  in 
which  the  argument  is  made  and  those  of  ideality  in 
which  it  is  received. 

Upon  the  conscience  of  every  individual  man, 
itself  a  reality,  there  are  the  incidences  of  an  universe 
of  exterior  realties,  as  upon  the  photographic  plate 
there  are  incident  in  images  the  features  of  the  land- 
scape ;  and  as  the  images  are  not  the  landscape,  so 
the  idealities  are  are  not  reality — to  the  subject  of 
them  at  least ;  and  these — not  realities — are  not  even 
the  same  to  difi*erent  men,  who  therefore  in  discus- 
sions of  them  but  beat  the  air.  But  the  more  of  this 
unprofitable  altercation  must  there  be  between  him 
who  speaks  in  terms  of  reality  to  him  who  hears 
in  terms  of  ideality.  Propositions  in  mathematics 
are  conclusive  for  the  reason  that  they  are  in  terms 
<^f  ideality  the  meanings  of  which  have  been  fixed  by 
definition  ;  but  propositions  in    physics  are  not  con- 


PREFACE. 


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elusive  for  the  reason  that  physics  are  realities,  the 
terms  of  which  in  idealities  have  not  only  not  been 
fixed  by  definition,  but  it  is  not  realized  that  there 
are  substantive  realities  susceptible  of  definition. 
There  are  realities  but  in  the  resolutions  of  an  uni- 
verse of  force,  and  it  is  not  seen,  or  agreed,  at  least, 
that  there  is  such  universe. 

To  the  profound  philosophy  of  Mr.  Herbert 
Spencer  himself  in  his  evolution  of  nothing  to 
evolve  there  is  not  the  assertion  of  such  reality  as 
such  nothing.  He  admits  that  there  is  reality,  but  a 
reality  of  whose  substantive  existence  he  has  no  con- 
ception sufficient  for  its  definition.  But  affirming  the 
substantive  existence  of  reality  of  which  I  have  con- 
ception as  the  noumenal  cause  of  phenomenal  con- 
sequences in  force,  the  every  one  of  which  were  the 
miracle  of  consequence  without  cause  if  there  be 
not  such  cause,  and  presenting  this  as  the  condition 
of  my  theory  of  man  at  this  earth  in  continuation  of 
a  nature  of  that  universal  reality  in  life  throughout 
the  universe,  it  is  proper  that  in  an  introduction, 
however  prolix,  I  give  the  meanings  of  the  terms, 
being  finite,  God,  the  Word  of  God,  force,  space, 
matter,  life,  nature,  universe,  star,  sun,  earth,  plant, 
animal,  man,  and  stock,  tribe  and  state  of  man,  by 
which  that  theory  may  be  expressed.  This  I  propose 
to  do  in  a  further  statement  of  intentions,  which, 
appropriately  or  not,  I  term  an  introduction,  and 
which,  first  as  object  lessons,  will  present  the  realities 
themselves  in  terms  to  which  the  definitions  are  to 
be  applied. 


INTEODUCTION. 


Section  I. 


A  PREFACE  so  extended  might  have  been  expected  to 
protect  the  reader  from  further  preliminary  statement, 
but  the  point  I  make  and  the  grounds  I  make  it  on 
are  new ;  and  as  argument  is  waste  without  a  clear 
perception  by  all  parties  of  its  subject,  by  way  of 
further  introduction  I  will  say  that  this  proposi- 
tion is  intended  to  present  a  theory  of  nature  ;  and 
of  man  in  nature,  and  of  nature  in  the  resolutions 
of  a  reality  in  life  throughout  the  universe  ;  and  of 
man  in  continuation  of  that  nature  at  this  earth. 
And  this  the  nature  of  the  word  of  God  in  force ; 
and  this  the  nature  of  a  general  providence  of  life 
in  nature  to  the  takers  of  it  possible  ;  and  these  the 
stars,  suns,  planets,  moons,  meteorites,  nebuLe  and 
comets  of  the  celestial  sphere,  and  the  forces,  matters, 
plants,  animals,  man  and  idealities  in  man  at  this 
earth's  surface. 

It  is  intended  that  to  man,  at  least,  there  is  reality  ; 
that  in  man  there  is  conscience,  and  that  this  in  him 
is,  as  in  the  camera,  the  photographic  plate  to 
take  the  picture  of  the  landscape.  That  as  there 
are  pictures  on  the  plate,  there  are  impressions  upon 
conscience  analogously  the  same  ;  that  these  are 
idealities,  no   one  of  which  were  possible  but  of  an 

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30 


INTRODUCTION. 


'4 


INTRODUCTION. 


31 


objective  reality  incident   to   produce  it ;  and   that 
there  are  these  objective  realities,  as,  of  these,  in 
human  conscience  there  are  idealities  subjective  of 
them.     Nor  these  only,  but  idealities  themselves  are 
realities  when  incident  on  conscience  they  occasion 
idealities.     So  that  to  every  human  conscience  there 
is  its  environment  of  an  universe  of  realities  objec- 
tive circumscribing  an  actual  or  potential  universe 
of  idealities  subjective.     The  one  of  which  objective 
realities  were  possible  but  as  it  be  in  tradition  from 
an  universal  being  in  force  of  which  in  resolution 
there  are  the  forces  of  this  universe,  which  universe 
of  force  in  such  forces  is  reality. — And  the  one  of 
which  subjective  idealities  were  possible  but  as  it  be 
in  consequence  of  such  objective  reality  in  incidence 
to  produce  it.     And  tliat  to  man,  therefore,  there  is 
reality  for  the  reason  that  every  instant  of  every  in- 
stance of  his  consciousness  is  but  of  such  reality  in 
incidence  upon  his  conscience  to  produce  it,  and  that 
he  is  without  the  sense  of  reality  but  as  he  is  with- 
out the  sense  of  his  existence. 

And  it  is  intended  that  of  the  reality  there  is 
nature.  That  of  this  as  an  universe  of  force, — the 
same  as  that  of  the  physical  forces,  heat,  light, 
electricity  and  magnetism,  dynamic  in  that  seeming 
vacuum  we  term  space,  and  static  in  that  apparent 
plenum  we  term  matter,— there  are  forces  different 
as  are  the  minus  and  plus  of  electric  force  and  the 
North  and  South  of  magnetic  force  and  heat  and 
light  and  electricity  and  magnetism.     And,  as  such, 


that  it  is  being  physiological,  that  the  being  physi- 
ological is  the  being  possible  of  kindred  beings  dif- 
ferent of  their  reciprocal  affinities  simply  in  reciprocal 
limitations  of  each  other.  And  that  such  is  the 
moment  of  heat,  light,  electricity,  or  magnetism ;  and 
such  the  electro-magnetic  spark ;  and  such  the 
magneto-electric  spheroid  proloblate ;  and  such  the 
Qiolecule,  compound  or  form  of  matter  inorganic  or 
organic  ;  and  such  the  earth,  plant,  animal  or  man — 
but  the  being  possible  of  kindred  beings  different 
of  their  reciprocal  affinities  simply  in  reciprocal  limi- 
tations of  each  other. 

And  it  is  intended  that  these  beings  are  relatively 
•dynamic  and  static  and — of  the  same  elements  in- 
versely— are  reciprocally  vacua  and  reciprocally  plena, 
and  reciprocally  attractive  and  reciprocally  repulsive, 
and  of  their  reciprocal  attractions  are  penultimately 
■coincident  on  the  line  of  their  neutral  being  inter- 
mediate, and  of  their  reciprocal  repulsions  are  in 
penultimate  differentiation  from  that  line  in  produc- 
tion of  the  spheroid  proloblate  and  wheel  of  the 
static  being  in  revolution  on  its  axis  of  the  dynamic. 

And  that  this  wheel  is  in  evo-involution — that  the 
radiations  of  the  axis  in  production  of  the  disk  is 
evolution,  and  the  circumscription  of  the  axis  by  the 
disk  involution,  and  that  the  wheel  is  one  of  evo- 
involution.  And  that  this  evo-involution  is  teleo- 
logic — that  the  disk  of  every  such  wheel  resolves  into 
quadrants  in  each  of  which  there  are  beings  different 
in  like  reactions  into  a  wheel  in  revolution  on  its 


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INTRODUCTION. 


axis  and  in  its  orbit  of  revolution  on  the  parent  axis, 
and  so  on  to  the  wheels  ultimately  possible.  And 
such  the  moment  or  medium  of  force  it  is  intended 
that  such  is  the  universe  of  media.  That  this  is 
being  physiological  in  teleologic  evo-involution,  of 
which  there  are  the  stars,  sun,  earth,  plant,  and 
animal  from  that  universe  to  man  inclusive. 

That  of  its  beings  different  the  dynamic  is  that 
which  in  beings  about  us  we  term  life,  and  the  static 
that  in  which  such  life  appears  which  we  term  nature.- 
And  the  universe  of  force,  such  wheel  of  which  the 
axle  is  life  and  the  disk  nature,  it  is  intended  that 
with  respect  to  such  axis  the  disk  of  the  universe  in 
teleologic  evo-involution  is  nature.  And  that  thus 
of  the  reality  there  is  nature. 

And  it  is  intended  that  of  this  nature  there  is  man. 
That  capable  and  cause  of  the  sun,  earth,  plant  and 
animal  to  man  it  were  capable  and  cause  of  man,  or 
at  that  point  it  were  the  miracle  of  cause  without 
consequence.  And  man  were  the  miracle  of  conse- 
quence without  cause.  And, — as  man  has  never  seen 
the  miracle  and  cannot  conceive  the  miracle, — to  man 
there  is  not  such  miracle.  And  to  man,  therefore, 
of  the  reality  there  is  nature  and  of  nature  man. 

And  it  is  intended  that  man  in  nature  is  in  con- 
tinuation of  nature.  And  for  the  reason  that  man 
also  is  being  physiological  in  teleological  evo-invo- 
lution— that  of  such  evolution  of  the  animal  there  is 
agamic  man,  and  of  agamic  the  polygamic  man,  and 
of  the  polygamic  the  monogamic  man,  and  such  evo- 
lution nature,  that  man  is  in  continuation  of  nature. 


INTRODUCTION. 


33 


And  that  he  is  in  continuation  of  nature  in  con- 
tinuing himself  into  the  man  possible  and  this  the 
most  and  best  man  possible  about  this  earth.  And 
this  for  the  reason  that  man  is  in  nature  at  this  earth 
from  the  resolutions  of  an  universe  of  life  in  nature 
in  every  instance  of  which  there  is  the  life  possible 
into  its  nature  possible,  and  the  life  to  man  through 
the  plant  and  animal  can  be  satisfied  but  by  such 
most  and  best  man  possible. 

And  intended  that  there  is  such  man  but  in  him 
of  unequal  races  in  relations  of  inequality,  it  is  in- 
tended that  man  to  such  man  is  in  continuation  of  a 
nature  of  reality  throughout  the  universe,  and  that 
this  is  the  nature  of  infinite  being  finite,  and  this  the 
nature  of  the  word  of  God  in  force,  and  this  the  na- 
ture of  a  general  providence  of  life  in  nature  to  the 
takers  of  it  possible,  and  these  the  stars  and  others 
of  the  celestial  sphere  and  the  plants  and  others  at 
this  earth. 

And  it  is  intended  that  this  theory  is  true  for  the 
reason  that  the  hypothesis  of  an  universe  of  force  is 
the  induction  of  cause  from  consequence  in  phenom- 
ena of  this  universe  and  that  the  nature  from  the 
universe  including  man  is  the  deduction  simply  from 
that  hypothesis.  And  that  the  hypothesis  were  mir- 
acle without  the  phenomena  of  nature  and  the  phe- 
nomena of  nature  were  each  the  miracle  if  there  be 
not  that  hypothesis. 

And  it  is  true  for  the  further  reason  that  it  is  the 
capitol  and  crowning  generalization  of  terrestrial  and 
celestial  phenomena. 


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INTRODUCTION. 


By  Kepler  it  was  found,  from  generalizations  of 
celestial  phenomena,  that  the  planets  move  in  ellipses, 
with  the  sun  in  one  of  their  foci ;  each  with  its  radius 
vector  sweeping  over  equal  areas  in  equal  times  and 
with  the  squares  of  their  periodic  times  in  proportion 
to  the  cubes  of  their  mean  distances. 

And  by  Newton,  in  generalizations  of  terrestrial 
phenomena  by  the  light  of  Kepler's  laws,  it  was  found 
that  all  bodies  of  matter  at  this  earth  are  under  the 
same  laws  of  actual  or  potential  motion  to  the  earth's 
centre,  expressed  in  gravitation,  as  are  the  planets  to 
the  central  sun. 

And — intended  that  these  are  the  only  important 
generalizations  of  phenomena  to  hypotheses  and  of 
consequence  to  cause  and  of  nature  to  life  and  of 
man  to  God  that  have  yet  been  made  by  man, — it  is 
intended  that  forbearance  of  further  generalization 
is  gratuitous. 

It  is  not  true  that  God  does  not  intend  us  to  know 
his  nature, — in  that  he  has  made  its  acceptance  to 
us  thfj  condition  of  existence.  Nor  is  it  true  as  found 
by  Kepler  that  planets  so  move  in  ellipses  with  the 
sun,  but  as  they  be  beings  physiological  and  in  re- 
ciprocal limitations  of  each  other,  or  these  but  as  they 
be  of  the  same  elements  inversely.  Nor  is  it  true  as 
found  by  Newton  that  the  matters  at  this  earth's 
surface  can  so  move  in  gravitations  to  its  centre,  but 
as  the  matters  of  the  earth's  crust  and  the  space 
centre  of  the  earth  be  in  the  same  relations  to  each 
other  as  are  the  sun  and  planets  and  of  the  same 


INTKODUCTION. 


35 


elements  inversely.  This  unification  in  substance  of 
all  phenomena  subjective  and  objective  solicits  man's 
acceptance.  It  is  the  condition  in  fact  of  the  uni- 
formities of  nature  upon  which  the  reason,  science, 
knowledge,  philosophy,  religion  and  life  of  man  de- 
pend. And  accepting  the  uniformity  we  do  in  effect 
accept  the  condition  of  its  existence,  in  accepting 
which  we  accept  that  there  is  man  at  this  earth  in 
continuation  of  a  nature  of  reality  throughout  the 
universe  to  the  man  possible,  and  this  the  man  of 
unequal  races  in  relations  of  inequality. 

And  so  true,  it  is  further  commended  to  acceptance 
in  the  fact  that  it  presents  to  human  sense  another 
subject  of  human  science.  Man  has  now  the  science 
of  phenomena  but  not  of  noumena,  and  of  conse- 
quence but  not  of  cause,  and  of  nature  but  not  of  life. 
But  in  accepting  this  theory  of  an  invisible  universe 
of  noumenon,  cause,  and  life,  into  the  visible  universe 
of  phenomena,  consequences,  and  natures,  we  acquire 
a  science  of  life  as  of  nature  and  are  no  longer  under 
the  necessity  of  invoking  the  miracle  we  cannot 
realize  to  every  nature  coming  into  notice, — as  even 
men  of  science  do  in  requiring  the  miracle  of  conse- 
quence without  cause  in  antecedent  nature  to  the 
origin  of  every  species  of  force,  matter,  plant,  or 
animal. 

And  it  is  thus  intended  that  of  the  reality  there  is 
nature,  and  of  nature  man,  and  that  man  of  nature  is 
in  continuation  of  nature  and  to  the  man  possible 
and  to  the  man  of  unequal  races  contingent  but  upon 
the  condition  that  there  be  reality. 


36 


INTRODUCTION. 


And  after  this  further  statement  of  the  proposition 
of  man  in  continuation  ot*  nature  it  might  be  expected 
and   desired  by   those   who   have  been   at  pains   to 
follow  it  so  far  that  the  argument  begin.     But  still  I 
am  impelled  to  further  preliminary  statement.     In 
looking  over  what  is  written  so  far  I  see  the  proba- 
bility that  the  essential  truth  intended  is  not  per- 
ceptible to  the  general  reader.     All  that  I  have  said 
or  intend  to  say  is  in  indication  of  the  existence  of 
an  invisible   and  inconceivable   reality,  and  this  the 
being  finite  of  beings  infinite,  and  this  the  word  of 
God's  originating  cause  in  terms  of  his  own  being,  and 
this  the  force  of  forces  opposite,  reciprocal,  and  com- 
plementary, and  this  the  noumenon  of  phenomena ; 
and  this  the  cause  insensible  of  consequences  sen- 
sible, and  this  the  life  invisible  of  natures  visible,  and 
this  the  conscience  insensible  of  its  own   existence 
but  as  it  is  obliged  to  accept  its  existence   as  the 
cause  of  sensibilities  otherwise  the  miracles  of  con- 
sequence without  cause  ;  and  this  that  inconceivable 
being  of  which  there  is  the  calculus — integral   in  its 
life — and  differential  in  its  nature ;  and  this  that  bein^^ 
to  evolve,  of  which  there  are  the  evolutions  of  Mr. 
Spencer ;  and  this  that  other  than  the  anthropomor- 
phic theos  of  theology,  with  respect  to  whose  beings 
Mr.  Huxley  is  content  to  be  agnostic.     And  this  that 
being  intermediate  life  and  nature,  through  which 
there  are  specific  beings  in  forces,  matters,  plants  and 
animals,  which  even  scientists  are  willing  to  accept 
as  the  miracles  of  consequences  without  cause,  the 


INTRODUCTION. 


37 


existence  of  which  no  single  scientist  is  intellectually 
able  to  accept ;  and  this  that  universal  being  the  ex- 
istence of  which  is  established  by  inductions  of  uni- 
versal phenomena  no  one  of  which  were  but  the 
miracle  of  consequence  without  cause  if  it  do  not 
exist  ;  and  this  that  being  of  life  and  nature  of  whose 
life  there  is,  or  is  to  be  science,  as  there  is  of  nature. 

Intended  that  life  is  cause  and  nature  consequence 
and  that  there  is  but  life  to  nature  and  but  nature  to 
life,  it  is  intended  that  of  these  two  beings  so  con- 
terminous the  sense  of  one  is  the  sense  of  the  other, 
and  the  science  of  the  one  the  science  of  the  other, 
if  man  have  intrepidity  to  accept  it. 

And  such  the  being  to  the  existence  of  which  it  is 
the  purpose  of  the  proposition  to  give  recognition,  it 
were  manifestly  vain  to  argue  of  its  truth  without 
perception  of  the  truth  intended,  or  to  suppose  that 
the  conventional  terms  of  the  sciences  of  nature  are 
sufficient  to  express  the  real  terms  of  that  being  in 
life  invisible  of  which  only  there  is  nature  visible. 

And  upon  a  subject  of  so  much  importance,  there- 
fore, I  must  be  indulged  in  the  fullest  statement 
possible  as  to  its  intentions,  and  that  there  is  reality, 
and  that  of  this  there  is  nature,  and  of  nature  man, 
and  that  man  of  nature  is  in  continuation  of  nature, 
and  this  but  in  being  his  most  and  best. 


38  INTRODUCTION. 

Section  II. 
Tirue  if  there  he  Reality, 

Such  the  theory  of  man  in  continuation  of  nature, 
it  is  intended  that  it  is  true  if  there  be  reaHty  :  That 
if  there  be  reality  there  is  nature  ;  and  if  there  be 
nature  there  is  man  in  nature ;  and  if  there  be  man 
in  nature  he  is  in  continuation  of  nature  contingent 
but  upon  the  condition  that  there  be  reality. 

Intended  that  if  there  be  reality  it  is  the  being 
finite  of  the  word  of  God  in  force ;  that  this  is  being 
physiological ;  that  this  is  in  teleologic  evo-involu- 
tion  ;  that  such  resolution  of  reality  is  nature  in  suc- 
cessive natures  ;  and  that  of  such  resolution  of  the 
universal  reality  in  force  there  are  the  stars,  sun, 
earth,  plant,  and  animal,  each  a  nature  from  the  uni- 
verse to  man  inclusive, — it  is  intended  that  of  the 
reality  there  is  nature  ;  and  for  the  reason  that  the 
reality  is  capable  of  nature,  and  nature  possible  of 
reality ;  and  that  of  nature  there  is  man  for  the 
reason  that  nature  is  capable  of  man,  and  man  pos- 
sible of  nature  ;  and  that  man  of  nature  is  conse- 
quence of  nature  and  in  continuation  of  nature  as  is 
consequence  of  cause. 

And  that  the  reality  is  capable  of  nature  and  as  be- 
ing, simply,  capable  ;  and  as  infinite  being  finite 
capable  ;  and  as  the  word  of  God  capable ;  and  as 
force  capable, — in  that,  whether  as  being,  simply, 
or  infinite  being  finite,  or  the  word  of  God,  or  force, 
it  were  being  physiological, — the  being  possible  of 


INTRODUCTION. 


39 


kindred  beings  different  of  their  reciprocal  affinities 
simply  in  reciprocal  limitations  of  each  other  in 
production  of  the  being  of  both  on  its  axis  of  the 
one,  and  this  in  teleologic  evo-involution.  That  such 
evo-involution  were  into  the  beings  possible  in  rev- 
olutions on  their  axis,  and  in  orbits  of  revolution  on 
their  parent  axis.  And  capable  of  this  that  it  were 
capable  of  nature. 

And  that  it  were  so  capable,  it  is  intended  that 
whether  as  being  simply  or  as  infinite  being  finite  or 
the  word  of  God  or  force,  the  reality  were  the  being 
possible  of  kindred  beings  different  of  their  affini- 
ties simply  in  limitations  of  each  other.  That  there 
is  being  simply  but  as  it  be  of  beings  indefinitely 
large  and  indefinitely  small  in  reciprocal  contradic- 
tions of  each  other  ;  or  infinite  being  finite  but  as 
these  infinites  be  opposites  and  reciprocally  con- 
tradictory ;  or  the  word  of  God  in  such  the  finite 
of  his  beings  infinite ;  or  force  but  as  it  be  being 
and  infinite  being  finite  and  the  word  of  God,  such, 
and  but  as  it  be  this  in  the  physical  forces,  heat, 
light,  electricity  and  magnetism  dynamic  in  that 
seeming  vacuum  we  term  space,  and  static  in  that 
apparent  plenum  we  term  matter. 

And  that  these  such  beings  are  in  reciprocal  lim- 
itations of  each  other,  but  as  they  be  in  penultimate 
coincidence  and  differentiation  on  the  axis  of  their 
neutral  being  intermediate,  that  they  are  so  but  as 
they  be  reciprocally  attractive  and  reciprocally  re- 
pulsive ;  and  so  but  as  they  be  reciprocally  vacua 


40 


INTRODUCTION. 


and  reciprocally  plena  ;  and  so  but  as  they  be  of  the 
same  elements  of  being  and  of  these  inversely. 

But  so  related,— as  are  the  minus  and  plus  of 
electricity,  or  heat  and  light,  or  electricity  and  mag- 
netism, or  space  and  matter,  or  the  negative  and 
positive  atoms  of  the  matter  molecule,  or  the  acid 
and  base  of  the  matter  compound,  or  the  staminate 
and  pistillate  of  the  plant,  or  the  sperm  and  germ, 
or  male  and  female  principles  of  the  animal, — that, 
of  the  same  elements  inversely,  they  are  of  their 
unlike  elements  reciprocally  vacua  and  attractive, 
and  of  their  like  elements  reciprocally  plena  and  re- 
pulsive, and  of  their  reciprocal  attractions  in  penul- 
timate coin(fidence  on  the  line  as  axis  of  their  neutral 
being  intermediate,  and  of  their  reciprocal  repulsions 
in  penultimate  differentiation  thence  in  production 
of  the  spheroid  proloblate  of  prolate  and  oblate 
spheroids, — the  one  spindle  and  the  other  spool, — 
and  this  a  wheel  physiological  of  both  in  revolution 
on  its  axis  of  the  one. 

It  is  intended  that  beings  so  related  are  dynamic 
and  static  in  their  special  beings  relatively  ;  and  the 
one  fast  and  the  other  slow  ;  and  that  in  coincidence 
and  differentiation,— the  one  is  screw  and  the  other 
nvit, — the  screw  to  enter  and  disrupt  the  nut  and 
project  it  in  rays  of  screw  and  nut  into  such  spheroid 
of  both  in  revolution  on  its  axis  of  the  one  ;  which 
axle  is  of  the  one  being  prepotent  and  its  disk  of  the 
other,  and  its  spokes  of  both  alternately  prepotent  to 
sustain  the  disk  and  axle  in  relation. 


INTRODUCTION. 


41 


Xnd, — such  the  being  physiological  of  which  the 
reality  is  capable, — it  is  intended  that  of  this  there 
is  teleologic  evo-involution. 

It  is  intended  that  every  such  wheel  is  a  medium 
of  reality  and, — this  of  such  kindred  beings  differ- 
ent,— that  in  this  of  such  beings  different  there  are 
their  reciprocal  inductions,  and  through  these  their 
self-insulations,  self -differentiations  and  coincidences 
and  differentiations  in  production  of  the  wheel  physi- 
ological of  both  on  its  axis  of  the  one. 

But  that  the  disk  of  that  wheel  is  a  medium,  also, 
Qot  essentially  different  from  the  original  media  and 
in  form  different  but  as  it  be  in  a  disk  of  relatively 
being  static  about  its  included  axis  of  being  dynamic. 
A.nd  that  of  the  reciprocal  inductions  of  the  beings 
different  of  such  disk  there  are  its  self-insulations 
into  four  parts,  each  a  quadrant  of  the  disk  and  each 
a  medium  in  self-insulation,  self-differentiation,  coin- 
cidence and  differentiation  into  a  peripherential 
wheel  physiological  in  revolution  on  its  individual 
axis  and  in  orbits  of  revolution  on  the  parent  axis. 

And  such  the  theoretical  reality  physiological,  it  is 
intended  that  such  is  the  actual  being  physiological 
from  every  medium  of  force.  It  is  intended  that  every 
such  physiological  reality  in  force, — whether  as  the 
moment  of  heat,  light,  electricity  or  magnetism,  or  as 
the  spark  of  these  in  heat  and  light,  or  as  the  spheroid 
proloblate  of  these  in  magnetic  moments  about  their 
axis  of  electrical  reactions,  itself  producing  the  disk  of 
magnetic  moments,  themselves  producing  the  electri- 


4:2 


INTRODUCTION. 


ctil  axis  in  reactions  to  produce  them, — is  an  autonomy; 
and  this  a  self-existing,  automatic,  autonomic,  teleo- 
logic  universal  one  and  only  being  of  this  universe. 
And  that  each  itself,  such  automony ,  is  of  infinitesimal 
autonomies— each  such  wheel  physiological  of  but 
two  atomic  finites  of  their  reciprocal  affinities  in 
reactions  of  coincidence  and  differentiation  on  their 
axis  of  neutral  being  intermediate ;  that  of  these  ul- 
timate atomic  finites  the  one  is  the  original  of  that 
dynamic  being  we  see  as  the  minus  of  electric  force, 
and  the  other  of  that  static  being  we  see  as  the  phis, 
and  that  the  one  is  the  original  of  that  we  see  as 
heat  and  the  other  of  that  we  see  as  light  ;  and  that 
the  one  is  electricity  and  the  other  magnetism  ;  and 
the  one  cause  and  the  other  consequence  ;  and  the 
one  life  and  the  other  nature. 

And  it  is  intended  that  each  such  force  of  these 
is  an  autonomy,  for  the  reason  that  it  is  of  no  force 
ah  extra,  but  simply  an  existence  in  force,  exclusive 
of  other  such  beings  from  the  reciprocal  affinities  in 
attraction  and  repulsion  of  the  beings,— atomic  of 
their  reciprocal  inductions,— involved. 

It  is  intended  that  any  two  infinitesimal  reahties  in 
force  both  of  the  same  beings  different  are  of  their 
unlike  elements  reciprocally  attractive,  and  of  their 
like  elements  reciprocally  repulsive  ;  that  in  this 
they  are  reciprocally  inductive  of  each  other ;  and 
of  their  attractions  meet  on  the  axis  of  their  neutral 
being  intermediate  with  but  their  reciprocal  repul- 
sion to  resist  such  meeting  ;  and  of  their  reciprocal 


INTRODUCTION. 


4S 


repulsions,  part  from  sucli  axis  with  but  their  recipro- 
cal attractions  to  prevent  such  parting.     That  under 
operation  of  such  four  elements  of  being  different 
these  form  in  the  disk  of  a  wheel  about  such  axis, — 
from  their  attractions  being  under  the  conditions 
greater  than  their  repulsions  ;  and, — of  their  superior 
attractions  clinging  to  such  axis, — that  of  their  su- 
perior repulsions  they  exclude  and  project  from  such 
nucleus  all  other  beings  not  so  involved  and  estab- 
lish, within,  a  consensus  of  individuality  conserva- 
tive of  its  individual  existence  and  obstructive  and 
destructive  of  all  other   beings  adjacent  to  disturb 
it, — but  as  they  be  forming  in  the  disk  of  such  wheel 
physiological  and  in  concurrence  with  it  in  produc- 
tion of  a  larger   wheel  in   every  way  but  in  size  the 
same  as  the  original.     That  thus  there  are  accretions 
in  opposite  directions  from  such  original  axis  of  such 
original  disk,  and  that  each  such  accretion  is  analo- 
gous to  the  continuous  reproduction  of  the  animal 
or  plant,  but  to  become   discontinuous  with  increas- 
ing distance  from  the  axis ;  that  in  this  there  is  wan- 
ing attachments  of  peripherential  beings  to  the  parent 
axis,  and  a  waxing  attachment  to  the  local  axis  of 
their  own  ;  and  that  in  this  there  is  the  enlargement 
of  the  disk  of  the  wheel  physiological  and  the  resolu- 
tion of  that  disk  into  peripherential  wheels  in  revolu- 
tion on  their  axis,  and  in  orbits  of  revolution  on  their 
parent    axis.      And    intended    that    coincidence   is 
involution  and  differentiation  evolution  and  the  reso- 
lution of  the  parent  disk   into  progenital  wheels  the 


44 


IWTKODUCTION. 


being  teleologic,  it  is  intended  that  this  process  of 
the  parent  wheel  into  progenital  wheels  possible  is 
teleologic  evo-involution.  And  intended  that  of  the 
reality  there  is  an  universe,  it  is  intended  that  of 
this  in  evo-involution  there  are  stars  about  the  axis 
of  the  universe,  and  suns  about  the  axis  of  stars, 
and  planets  about  the  axis  of  suns  ;  and  that 
about  the  axis  of  this  earth,  a  planet  in  evo-involu- 
tion, there  are  the  molecular  matters  of  its  crust,  and 
at  its  surface  the  compounds  of  these,  and  the  plants 
of  these,  and  the  animal  of  these,  and  the  man  of  these 
in  continuation  simply  of  this  earth's  process  of 
teleologic  evo-involution.  And  intended  that  such 
teleologic  evo-involution  of  reality  is  nature,  it  is  in- 
tended that  this  reality  capable  of  this  is  capable  of 
nature.  And  intended  that  there  is  a  nature  through 
stars,  sun,  earth,  plant  and  animal  from  the  universe 
to  man  inclusive,  and  that  these  are  beings  finite 
of  being  infinite  ;  it  is  intended  that  of  this  nature  the 
universal  reality  as  being  finite  is  capable.  And  in- 
tended that  there  is  a  nature  of  God  from  the  uni- 
verse to  man  inclusive  ;  it  is  intended  that  of  this  na- 
ture the  reality  as  the  word  of  God  is  capable.  And 
intended  that  there  is  a  nature  of  force  from  the  uni- 
verse to  man,  it  is  intended  that  of  this  nature 
the  reality,  as  the  universe  of  force,  is  capable. 

It  is  intended  that  if  there  be  dynamic  force  sutti- 
cient  on  matter  it  is  sublimed  to  space  in  heat  and 
light ;  and  if  there  be  static  force  sufficient  it  is 
reduced   to   space   in    cold  and  dark,  the  heat  and 


INTRODUCTION. 


45 


lipjht  representing  the  minus  and  plus  of  electricity, 
and  the  cold  and  dark  the  north  and  south  of  mag- 
netism; and  that  minus  is  space  to  plus  matter, 
and  heat  space  to  light  matter,  and  south  space 
to  north  matter,  and  electricity  space  to  magnetism 
matter;  and  that  in  each  of  these  reactions  there  is 
the  being  physiological  in  teleologic  evo-involutions 
of  reality,  as  there  are  in  the  star,  sun,  earth,  plant 
and  animal  from  the  universal  reality  of  infinite  being 
finite  and  the  word  of  God  to  man  ;  and  that  thus  the 
reality  were  capable  of  nature  and  capable  were 
cause.  And  this  in  that  to  conscious  man  capability 
is  cause ;  that  whatever  be  the  fact,  man  is  conscious 
of  an  universe  of  cause  to  an  universe  of  consequence 
and  of  an  universe  of  consequence  to  an  universe  of 
cause  ;  that  he  has  not  seen  nor  can  he  conceive  of  an 
instance  of  cause  without  consequence  or  of  conse- 
quence without  cause ;  that  his  axioms,  reason, 
knowledge,  religion,  and  life  itself,  are  upon  the 
condition  of  an  universe  of  cause  to  an  universe  of 
consequence  and  of  an  universe  of  consequence  to 
an  universe  of  cause,  the  contrary  of  which  were  the 
miracle  of  factors  without  product  or  product  without 
factors  he  has  not  seen  and  cannot  see  ;  so  that,  if 
the  reality  capable  be  not  cause  of  nature,  there  is 
in  such  reality  the  miracle  of  cause  without  conse- 
quence ;  and  in  such  nature,  then  possible  of  the 
reality,  the  miracle  of  consequence  without  cause : 
since,  than  the  exclusive  universe  of  reality,  there 
is  nothing  else  to  cause  the  universe  of  nature  and 


46 


INTRODUCTION. 


in  the  exclusive  universe  of  nature  there  is  nothing 
else  but  nature  to  consequence  the  universal  reality. 

And  it  is  intended  that  for  like  reason  of  nature 
there  is  man  ;  that  nature  in  teleologic  evo -in volu- 
tion of  an  universal  reality  is  capable  of  man  and 
man  possible  of  such  nature ;  and,  capability  cause 
and  possibility  consequence,  that  nature  were  cause 
of  man  and  man  consequence  of  nature  without  the 
miracles  of  cause  without  conset^uence  or  conse- 
quence without  cause  ;  and  without  the  even  greater 
miracle  there  were  in  a  nature  and  a  man  in  nature 
of  an  anthropomorphic  theos  of  his  own  imagination. 
And  intended  that  there  is  not  such  miracle,  it 
is  intended  that  if  there  be  reality  there  is  nature, 
and  man  in  nature,  and  man  in  continuation  of  nature ; 
^nd  that  there  is  man  in  continuation  of  a  nature  of 
reality,  and  that  thus  there  is  the  nature  of  a  reality 
in  life  throughout  the  universe  and  man  in  contin- 
uation of  that  nature,  contingent  but  upon  the  condi- 
tion that  there  be  reality.  And  this  the  nature  of  in- 
finite being  finite,  and  this  the  nature  of  the  word  of 
Ood,  and  this  the  nature  of  an  universe  of  force  in 
teleologic  evo-involution,  and  this  the  nature  of  the 
infinite  God  and  not  of  an  anthropomorphic  theos, 
and  this  the  nature  of  religion  and  not  of  theology 
in  the  superstitions  of  an  earlier  man  ;  and  a  nature 
in  science  of  which  there  is  also  the  science  of  life. 

Intended  that  nature  is  of  life  and  nature,  and  that 
so  is  man  of  life  and  nature  and  so  the  conscience  of 
man,  it  is  intended  that  the  life  of  conscience  is  percep- 


INTRODUCTION. 


47 


tive  but  of  the  nature  of  objective  being  as  the  eye 
sees  its  object  but  not  itself ;  and  that  in  man  it  is 
the  photographic  plate  to  take  the  pictures  of  the 
natures  of  the  landscape  visible  but  not  of  their  lives 
invisible  ;  and  that  there  is  but  empirical  science,  and 
this  but  of  objects  visible  ;  and  science  but  of  nature 
therefore.  But  from  the  universal  truth  of  cause  to 
consequence  and  consequence  to  cause, — that  the 
science  of  nature  is  in  e£fect  the  science  of  life  ;  that  so 
related  as  are  these,  the  representatives  to  us,  of  the 
beings  infinite  of  whose  limitations  of  each  other  there 
is  the  word  of  God  in  force, — there  is  not  life  without 
nature  or  nature  without  life  ;  or  life  but  as  the  being 
of  the  most  of  life  to  the  least  of  nature,  and  nature  but 
as  the  being  of  the  most  of  nature  and  the  least  of 
life.  And  it  is  intended  that  as  there  is  consciously 
the  science  of  nature,  there  is  unconsciouly  the  science 
of  life,  to  become  consciouslv  the  science  of  life  when 
man  shall  have  the  intellectual  intrepidity  to  accept 
and  entertain  that  invisible  cause  of  consequences 
visible,  not  one  of  which  were  possible  but  as  there 
be  such  cause. 

It  is  intended  that  these  life  a,nd  nature  are  as  cause 
and  consequence,  and  noumena  and  phenomena ; 
and  that  as  there  is  an  actual  science  of  phenomena 
there  is  a  possible  science  of  noumena,  and  that  in  the 
meantime,  and  before  man  shall  sensibly  accept 
such  science  of  life  by  deduction  from  the  hypothesis 
established  by  induction  of  the  phenomena,  he  must, 
as  the  condition  of  every  act  of  his  physical  or  moral 


48 


INTRODUCTION. 


being,  intuitively  and  scientitically  accept  that  life 
without  which  the  everything  in  nature  were  the  mir- 
acle of  consequence  without  cause  ;  and  intended  that 
the  life  of  science  is  the  life  of  reason,  and  that  the 
life  not  of  science  is  a  life  of  superstition,  and  that 
reason  is  of  God,  and  superstition  of  the  anthropo- 
morphic theos  in  the  place  of  God,  and  that  the  cul- 
ture of  God  is  religion  and  the  culture  of  theos  theo- 
logy, it  is  intended  that  this  nature  of  reality  of  which 
man  is  in  continuation  at  this  earth  is  the  nature  of 
cause  as  of  consequence,  and  of  space  invisible  as  of 
matter  visible,  and  of  life  insensible  as  of  nature  sen- 
sible, and  of  religion  in  obedience  to  the  real  God  of 
this  universe  in  force,  instead  of  theology  in  obedi 
ence  to  the  imaginary  and  anthropomorphic  theos  of 
human  superstition.  And  that  there  is  this  nature  if 
there  be  reality  for  the  reason  that  nature  were  else 
the  miracle  without,  and  man  of  nature  if  there  be 
nature,  and  man  in  continuation  of  nature  from  being 
consequence  of  cause  in  nature,  which  can  be  but  in 
continuation  of  its  cause,  and  that  the  theory  is  true 
if  there  be  reality. 


INTRODUCTION. 


49 


Section  III. 

That  there  is  Heality. 

It  is  intended  that  there  is  reality  and  this  in  the 
being  finite  of  the  word  of  God  in  force  ;  and  this  the 
original  self-existent,  automatic,  autonomic,  teleologic 
one  and  only  being  of  this  universe.  That  there  is 
being  finite  of  beings  infinite  in  reciprocal  limitations 
of  each  other  ;  and  the  word  of  God  in  such  the 
finite  of  his  beings  infinite  ;  and  force  in  the  physical 
forces,  heat,  light,  electricity,  magnetism, — dynamic 
in  that  seeming  vacuum  we  term  space,  and  static  in 
that  apparent  plenum  we  term  matter, — and  but  in 
phenomena  to  conscience  of  that  finite  word.  And 
that  of  this  there  is  an  universe  and, — as  the  being  finite 
of  beings  infinite, — an  universe  ;  and, — as  the  word 
of  God  the  universal  cause, — an  universe  ;  and  as 
force  in  phenomena  of  that  universal  word,  an  uni- 
verse ;  and  as  force, — the  universe  of  which  were 
the  condition  of  every  instance  of  force  at  any  point 
of  time  or  place, — an  universe.  And  this  at  any  point 
of  place  or  time,  within  this  universe  ;  or  whether  as 
being  infinite,  or  finite,  simply, — or  as  the  being 
finite  of  beings  infinite  in  reciprocal  limitations  of 
each  other,  or  as  the  word  of  God  ;  or  as  force  ;  or 
as  the  moment  or  medium  of  thermal,  photal,  elec- 
tric or  magnetic  force,  or  as  the  moment  or  medium 
of  space ;  or  as  the  atom,  molecule,  compound,  or 
form  of  matter  inorganic   or  organic  in   plant,  ani- 


50 


INTKODICTION. 


INTRODUCTION. 


51 


mal,  or  man, — is  being  original,  in  that  it  is  without 
previous  existence  at  its  time  and  place  as  such  ;  and 
self-existent  in  its  consistence,  but  of  its  own  beings 
in  reaction  ;  and  automatic  in  its  activities  but  of  its 
own  means  ;  and  autonomic  in  its  activities  but  to  its 
own  ends ;  and  teleologic  in  its  evo-in volution  of 
])arent  into  progeny  ;  and  universal  for  the  reason 
stated.  And  that  it  is  the  one  and  only  being  of  this 
universe,  in  that,  than  this,  as  being  infinite,  or  finite, 
simply,  there  is  no  other;  and  as  the  being  finite  of 
beings  infinite, — no  other ;  and  as  the  word  of  God 
the  universal  cause, — no  other  ;  and  as  force,  but  in 
phenomena  of  that  word, — no  other ;  and  as  force, 
the  instance  of  which  w^ere  possible,  but  as  there  be 
an  exclusive  universe  of  force, — no  other.  And  that 
this  is  that  being  of  which  there  are  the  objective 
beings  incident  in  stars  and  planets  of  the  celestial 
sphere,  and  forces  and  matters  inorganic  and  organic 
at  this  earth ;  and  that  these  are  all  of  this 
one  and  only  being  of  the  word  of  God  in  force. 
And  that  this  is  that  being  of  which  in  man  theiv 
is  the  subjective  consciousness  of  such  objective 
beings  ;  that  in  man,  himself  objective  being,  there 
is  being  termed  his  conscience,  and  that  this  as  such, 
in  man,  is  as  in  the  camera  the  photographic  plate 
prepared  to  take  the  picture  of  the  landscape  ;  tnat 
as  of  a  something  from  the  landscape  in  incidence 
upon  a  something  in  the  plate  there  is  a  picture 
on  the  plate,  so  of  a  something  from  objective  be- 
ing in   incidence   upon  a  something  in  conscience 


there  is  ideality  in  being  of  that  objective  being  to 
produce  it ;  and  that  this  ideality  in  conscience  is  be- 
ing ;  and  this  the  same  as  that  of  objective  being  to 
produce  it ;  and  that  conscience  itself  is  being ;  and 
this  the  same  as  that  of  objective  being  to  affect  it. 
That  to  such  sense  in  conscience  of  its  object  there 
is  reaction  between  the  beings  of  conscience  and  its 
object,  and  that  there  is  this  but  as  the  essential  beings 
of  conscience  and  its  object  be  in  coincidence  and 
(lifierentiation  upon  the  axis  of  their  neutral  being 
intermediate  ;  that  there  is  this  but  as  these  beings 
be  reciprocally  attractive  and  reciprocally  repulsive ; 
that  they  are  so  but  as  they  be  reciprocally  vacua 
and  reciprocally  plena  ;  that  they  are  so  but  as  they 
be  of  the  same  elements  inversely  ;  and  that  thus  there 
is  being  objective  and  subjective  and  these  essen- 
tially the  same.  And  that  this  is  that  being  in  force 
of  which  there  are  the  forces  of  this  universe. 

It  is  intended  that  of  moderate  force,  dynamic  or 
static  on  matter,  at  rest  or  in   motion,  there  are  ex- 
pressed the  forces  heat,  light,  electricity  and  magnet 
ism  ;  and  that  of  iiinaoderate  force,  dynamic  or  stati 
on  matter,  there  is  its    disappearance  as  matter  an^ 
its  reappearance  in  force  of  heat,  light,   electricit; 
or  magnetism  ;  that  these  forces  are  but  the  phenom 
enal  phases  of  the  essential  being,   force,  and  that 
this  is  the  objective  and  subjective  finite  word  ol 
God  ;  and  that  this  is  that  being  in  space  of  which 
there  are  the  spaces  of  this  universe.     Intended  that 
of  force  on  matter  there  are  the  physical  forces,  but 


52 


INTRODUCTION. 


INTRODUCTION. 


58 


in  states  of  intensity  invisible ;  and  that  matter  there- 
fore is  visible  but  in  its  solid,  liquid  and  gaseous 
states  ;  and  in  its  innumerable  other  states  invisible, 
as  is  that  seeming  vacuum  between  matters  we  term 
space ;  it  is  intended  that  for  this  reason  there  is  the 
essential  substance  of  that  apparent  plenum  we  term 
matter  in  the  interval  between  matters ;  and  that  in 
these  intervals  there  are  beings  invisible  reacting 
with  matters,  but  as  matters  invisible  could  react  with 
matters  visible ;  and  that  there  is  an  invisible  uni- 
verse of  space  as  real  as  the  planetary  orbs  of 
matter  in  it ;  and  that  these  realities  in  matter  are  in 
proportion  to  their  reciprocal  reality,  invisible  in 
space  as  are  the  planets  of  this  solar  system  to  their 
orbits,  and  as  are  the  motes  upon  the  sunbeam  to  the 
sunbeam  on  which  they  float ;  and  that  this  is  that 
being  in  matter  of  which  there  are  the  matters  of  the 
universe. 

Intended  that  there  are  stars,  suns,  planets,  moons, 
meteorites,  nebulae,  and  comets  of  the  celestial  sphere, 
and  at  this  earth  a  planet,  plants,  animals,  men  and 
idealities  in  men  ;  and  that  these  are  all  of  that  static 
being  visible  we  term  matter,  and  that  this  is  of  that 
relatively  dynamic  of  which  we  are  sensible  as  force  ; 
it  is  intended  that,  as  of  force  infused  into  matter 
there  is  matter  raised  to  space,  so  of  force  with- 
drawn from  space  there  is  space  reduced  to 
matter,  as  daily  of  heat  withdrawn  from  this  earth's 
atmosphere  of  force  there  is  the  fall  of  water  form- 
ing in  it ;  that  of  such   rains   or   snows  there  is  no 


other  source  ;  that  the  waters  falling  from  the  clouds 
do  not  rise  in  vapor  but  in  heat ;  that  there  was 
once  a  time  when  there  was  not  water,  or  hydrogen, 
or  any  non-metallic  element  of  matter  save  oxygen 
in  existence  at  the  earth's  surface  to  rise  from  it,  and 
as  waters  fell  then  more  abundantly  than  they  fall 
now  and  but  from  heat,  that  they  fall  now  but  from 
heat  condensed  to  water  from  reaction  with  this  ex- 
terior atmosphere  of  force  in  cold.  And  that  this  be- 
ing is  reality  and  as  the  substance  of  objective  beings 
reality ;  and  as  the  cause  of  idealities  reality ;  and 
as  being  finite  reality;  and  as  the  w^ord  of  God 
reality  ;  and  as  force  reality  ;  and  as  the  cause  of 
life  reality  ;  and  of  nature  reality ;  and  of  the  stars, 
sun,  earth,   plant,    animal    and    man, — realities, — 

reality. 

It  is  intended  that  there  are  two  modes  of  the  re- 
ahty  different,  and  the  one  energy  and  the  other 
inertia,  and  the  one  dynamic  and  the  other  static, 
and  the  one  life  and  the  other  nature  in  reactions 
of  coincidence  and  differentiation  ;  that  of  these  two 
modes  of  being  there  are  the  beings  of  this  universe 
to  man,  and  that  these  beings  are  natures  in  a  course 
of  nature  from  the  universe  to  man  ;  and  that  of  these 
natures  the  reality  is  cause,  and  of  this  course  of 
nature  it  is  cause,  and  that  of  the  life  of  which 
there  is  nature  it  is  cause  ;  that  the  reality  is  of  be- 
ings different  in  that  they  are  of  the  same  elements 
inversely,  and  that  these  are  reciprocally  vacua  and 
reciprocally  plena,  and  reciprocally  attractive  and  re- 


54 


INTRODUCTION. 


INTRODUCTION. 


55 


ciprocally  repulsive,  and  of  such  their  affinities 
that  they  are  in  coincidence  and  diiferentiatiou 
in  production  of  the  wheel  physiological  of  both  in 
teleologic  evo-involution  ;  and  that  this  is  nature, 
and  that  of  this  there  are  the  natures  of  the  universe 
and  the  course  of  such  natures  from  the  universe  to 
man.  And  these  natures  reality  and  the  cause  re- 
ality, it  is  intended  that  the  cause  of  the  life  of  which 
there  are  these  natures  is  reality,  and  of  the  natures 
and  the  course  of  natures  reality,  to  man  at  least,  who 
must  accept  that  as  reality  upon  which  his  conscious- 
ness and  existence  both  depend. 

Intended  that  there  is  an  universe  but  of  cause  to 
consequence  and  consequence  to  cause,  and  that 
man  is  of  such  universe  and  his  conscience  of  such 
universe,  and  that  this  conscience  is  of  cause  to  con- 
sequence and  consequence  to  cause,  and  can  realize 
being  or  the  being  or  beings  of  this  universe  but  as 
they  be  of  cause  to  consequence  and  consequence  to 
cause,  it  is  intended  that  capability  is  cause  and 
that  the  reality  capable  of  nature  is  cause  of  nature, 
and  that  to  man  there  is  reality  if  to  man  it  rationally 
appear  that  there  is  that  in  existence  which  could  not 
be  without  reality  and  that  there  are  such  beings  ; 
that  there  is  this  solar  system  possible  but  of  the 
evo-involution  of  an  universal  reality  in  force  ;  and 
this  earth  possible  but  of  the  evo-involution  of  a 
solar  medium  of  reality ;  and  the  successive  strata  of 
this  earth's  crust  possible  but  of  the  earth's  medium 
of  reality  in  evo-involution  ;  and  this  earth's  atmos- 


phere of  force  possible  but  of  radiations  of  reality, 
from  the  surface  of  the  earth,  in  evo-involution. 

It  is  intended  that  exterior  to  the  earth's  surface 
of  water  there  is  its  atmosphere  of  force  physiologi- 
cal apparent  in  the  fact  that  if  there  be  disturbance 
of  it  at  any  point  about  the  earth  by  artificial  force 
there  is  the  resolution  of  that  disturbance  into  beings 
physiological.  That  such  are  the  beings  in  heat, 
light,  electricity,  and  magnetism,  and  systems  of  these 
from  force  on  matter  ;  and  such  sound,  and  the  sub- 
jects of  touch,  taste,  smell  and  sight ;  and  such  the  mes- 
sages delivered  by  the  telegraph  and  telephone.  It 
is  intended  that  every  such  message  were  the  miracle 
of  consequence  without  cause  if  there  be  not  an  at- 
mosphere of  force  physiological  to  register  at  one 
point  the  changes  made  by  force  upon  it  at  another, 
and  that  such  is  the  plant's  atmosphere  of  force 
physiological  possible  but  of  radiations  of  reality 
from  the  plant  in  evo-involution. 

It  is  intended  that  exterior  to  the  plant  in  its  va- 
riations to  its  beings  possible  there  is  an  atmosphere 
actual  or  potential  of  force  physiological  through 
which  of  its  radiating  energy  the  plant  is  formed 
into  the  plant  possible  ;  and  that  such  is  the  animal  at. 
mosphere  of  force  physiological  through  which  there 
is  at  every  stage  of  its  process  the  animal  possible, 
and  of  the  radiate  the  annulate,  and  of  the  annulate 
the  articulate,  and  of  the  articulate  the  vertebrate, 
and  of  the  vertebrate  the  fish,  and  of  the  fish 
the    reptile,    and    of  this  the  digitigrade,    and    oi 


n 


56 


INTRODUCTION. 


this  the  plantigrade,  and    of   this  the   four-handed, 
and  of  this  the  two-footed   and    two-handed    ani- 
mal.     And    that    such    is   the    human    atmosphere 
of  force  physiological  termed  civilization,  through 
ministrations    of   which   in    making   man   the  man 
possible     there     are     successively     agamic,    poly- 
gamic   and    monogamic    man,  and  through    which 
there  is  to  be  the  man  compounded  of  an  union   of 
unequal  races  in  relations  of  inequality.     And  that 
such  is  the  medium  of  values  in  every  human  civili- 
zation termed  money — the  same  to  man  in  polar  re- 
lations of  supply  and  want  to  each   other  as  is  the 
force  electric  or  magnetic  between  the  poles  of  the 
battery  or  magnet.     And  that  such  generally  is  the 
being  finite  or  the  word   of   God,  or   force,  or  the 
moment    of   thermal,  photal,    electric,    or   magnetic 
force,  or  the  moment  of  space,  or  the  molecule  com- 
pound,   or    form    of   matter   inorganic    or   organic, 
plant,  animal,  or  man  or  ideality  in  man,  not  one  of 
which  were  possible,  or   hut    the    miracle    of  conse- 
quence without  cause,  if  there  be  not  reality  in  the 
finite  word  of  God  in  force  ;  that  such  also  were  life, 
nature,  and    in    man    the    ideality    of   such    reality. 
And  that  there  is  reality  therefore   as   there   be  the 
sun,  earth,  or  atmosphere  of   force   physiological,  or 
God  or  the  word  of  God,  or  being  finite,  or  force,  or 
the  moment  of  force,  or   space,  or    the    moment    of 
space,  or  matter,  or  the  molecule  compound  or  form 
of  matter,  inorganic  or  organic,  or  in  plant,  animal, 
or  man,  or  as  there  be  life  or  nature,  or  a  thinf^  of 


m 
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INTRODUCTION. 


57 


\  1 


nature,  or  in  man  the  sense  of  the  one  of  these. 
And  intended  that  there  is  not  only  the  one  but  the 
every  one  of  these,  it  is  intended  that  there  is  real- 
ity. But  a  reality  of  which  in  man  there  is  not  and 
cannot  be  objective  sense ;  and,  for  reason  that  it  is 
itself  that  being  in  man  through  which  there  is  the 
sense  of  his  own  being  and  of  beings  with  him,  and, 

itself  man's  conscience — that  this  conscience  can 

see  itself  but  as  the  eye  in  seeing  objects  can  see  it- 
self ;  that  the  eye  in  seeing  objects  can  see  induc- 
tively that  in  doing  this  it  must  itself  exist  as  a 
being  susceptible  of  such  sensations,  but  only  as  the 
possible  hypothesis  of  such  phenomena ;  that  as 
such  realitv  it  is  infinite  being  finite,  and  of  life  in- 
finite  into  nature  finite,  and  as  such  an  original  self- 
existent,  automatic  and  teleologic  autonomy  in  being 
simply  of  the  word  of  God's  own  being  in  life  into 
the  natures  of  it  possible — and  such  reality,  that 
there  is  reality  as  there  are  the  realities,  the  one  of 
which  were  not  possible  without  it. 


58 


INTRODUCTION. 


INTRODUCTION. 


59 


Section  IV. 

That  of  the  ReaiHy  there  is  Nature, 

Such  reality  in  the  original  self-existent,  auto- 
matic, autonomic,  teleologic  universal  one.  and  only 
being  finite  of  the  word  of  God  in  force ;  it  is  in- 
tended that  of  this  there  is  nature  in  that  this  is 
capable  of  nature,  and,  capability  cause,  the  cause 
of  nature.  And  in  that  there  is  nature  possible  of 
reality;  and  possibility  consequence  the  consequence 
of  reality.  And  that  the  reality  is  capable  of  nature 
in  that  it  is  being  physiological ;  that  being  physio 
logical  is  the  being  possible  of  kindred  beings  dif- 
ferent of  their  reciprocal  affinities  simply  in  recipro 
cal  limitations  of  each  other ;  that  this  in  form  of  a 
spheroid  proloblate  of  prolate  and  oblate  spheroids, 
the  one  spindle  and  the  other  spool, — the  spool  in 
revolution  on  its  axle  of  the  spindle,  and  this  iu 
evo-involution  of  the  spool  into  such  spheroids  of 
relative  matter  in  revolutions  on  their  axes,  and  iu 
orbs  and  in  orbits  of  revolution  on  their  parent 
axis  of  included  space.  And  that  this  resolution  of 
such  beings  different  into  such  wheel  physiological 
of  spindle  and  spool  is  nature,  and  that  this  of  the 
spool  by  evo-involution  into  wheels  in  revolution  ou 
their  axes  and  in  orbits  on  the  parent  axis  is  also 
nature ;  and  that  as  being  simply  it  is  so  capable 
and  as  being  finite  capable;  and  as  the  word  of 
God  capable  and  as  force  capable.  And  as  beiu 
simply  capable. 


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It  is  intended  that  whether  there  be  specifically 
the  being  finite,  or  the  word  of  God,  or  force,  there 
is  at  least,  to  conscious  man,  the  ultimate  term  of  or- 
ganic matter  at  this  earth, — being.  There  is  in  man 
being ;  and  in  the  conscience  of  man  being ;  and  in 
the  objective  beings  in  incidence  upon  subjective  con- 
science,— being ;  and  that  such  being  simply  is  being 
physiological,  and  so  capable  of  nature. 

It  is  intended  that  there  is  being  infinite  or  finite ; 
or  both  infinite  and  finite ;  and  infinite  in  the  ele- 
ments of  being  involved  ;  and  finite  in  the  limitations 
of  the  one  infinite  by  another  infinite  as  itself  ;  but 
that  to  us  there  is  the  conception  of  such  being  but 
as  it  be  midway  between  infinites  large  and  small, 
and  but  as  these  be  in  reaction  from  their  polar 
states  of  being  invisible  to  produce  it  intermediate, 
as  the  neutual  being  intermediate,  the  poles  of  the 
battery  or  magnet ;  and  but  as  it  be  in  modes  of  being, 
the  one  from  the  inconceivably  small  to  the  incon- 
ceivably large,  and  as  the  other  be  from  the  inconceiv- 
ably large  to  the  inconceivably  small,  and  the  one  from 
nothing  to  infinity  and  the  other  from  infinity  to  noth- 
ing ;  and  but  as  this  being  conceivable  be  of  beings 
difierent,  opposite,  reciprocal,  and  complementary  ; 
and  but  as  the  ones  be  from  small  to  large  and  the 
others  from  large  to  small ;  and  as  the  ones  be  from 
centre  to  surface  and  the  others  from  surface  to 
centre,  and  as  the  ones  be  centrifugal  and  the  others 
be  centripetal ;  and  as  the  ones  be  radical  and  the 
others  peripherential ;  and  but  as  in  every  radiation  of 


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INTRODUCTION. 


61 


such  being  from  its  axis,  and  in  every  peripherential 
line  of  such  being  about  its  axis  there  be  beings  op- 
posite ;  and  in  reaction  in  every  such  ray  and  line  : 
and  on  every  point  of  such  ray  and  line,  and  on 
every  point  in  coincidence  and  differentiation  in  pro- 
duction of  the  wheel  physiological  of  both  on  its 
axis  of  the  one,  and  this  in  teleologic  evo-involution 
and  that  this  is  being  physiological,  and  that  thus  in 
being  simply  there  is  being  physiological. 

And  such  infinite,  or  finite,  being  simply  that  such 
the  more  certainly  is  infinite  being  finite  ;  that  there 
is  being  finite  but  of  beings  infinite  in  reciprocal  limi- 
tations of  each  other, — possible  but  as  they  be  at- 
tractive and  repulsive,  reciprocally, — possible  but  as 
they  be  reciprocally  vacua  and  plena, — possible  but 
as  they  be  of  the  same  elements  inversely,  but  that 
so  related  and  in  any  medium  they  are  in  such  coin- 
cidence on  the  line,  as  axis,  of  their  neutral  being 
intermediate  ;  and  as  screw  and  nut  in  production 
of  the  spheroid  and  wheel  physiological  of  both,  the 
axle  of  which  is  in  potency  of  the  one  being  infinite, 
and  the  disk  of  the  other ;  and  the  spokes  of  both, 
alternately  prepotent,  to  sustain  the  disk  and  axle  in 
relation  ;  and  that  this  finite  the  being  possible  of 
kindred  beings  different,  of  their  reciprocal  affinities, 
simply,  in  reciprocal  limitations  of  each  other, — is 
being  physiological. 

And  that  this,  as  the  word  of  God  is  being  phys- 
iological. That  there  is  God  but  as  cause ;  and  cause 
but  through  means ;  and  through  means  but  of  his 


own  infinite  beings  finite ;  and  finite  but  in  their  re- 
ciprocal limitations  of  each  other, — possible  but  of 
their  coincidences  and  differentiations, — of  their 
reciprocal  affinities  in  production,  on  the  axis  inter- 
mediate of  the  spheroid  and  wheel  of  both  in  revo- 
kition  on  its  axis  of  the  one.  And  this  the  being 
finite  of  the  beings  infinite  ;  and  that  being  physio- 
logical,— that  the  word  of  God  is  being  physiological. 
And  this, — the  possible  of  beings  different  of  their 
affinities  simply  in  limitations  of  each  other, — is 
being  physiological. 

And  that  this,  as  force,  but  in  phenomena  of  that 
noumenal  reality  in  the  finite  word  of  God  is  being 
physiological.  And  that  this, — as  force,  the  cause 
invisible  of  consequences  visible  in  heat,  light,  elec- 
tricity, magnetism,  space  and  matter  is  such,  and 
that  each  of  these  is  such  being  physiological. 

It  is  intended  that  if  there  be  moderate  force  phys- 
ical, or  chemical,  on  matter  solid  or  liquid  insulated, 
there  are  produced  at  its  extremities  the  electric 
forces  minus  and  plus,  and  these  in  atomic  and 
polar  relations  to  each  other  upon  the  available  line, 
as  axis,  of  their  neutral  being  ;  and  that  these,  when 
in  sufficient  quantity,  react  sensibly  upon  that  line  ; 
and, — if  unconducted, — into  the  spark  of  heat  and 
light,  and, — if  conducted, — into  the  spheroid  pro- 
loblate  and  wheel  of  magnetic  moments  moving 
about  this  line  as  axis  of  electrical  elements  reacting 
to  produce  them.  But  it  is  intended  that  if  there  be 
immoderate  force,   physical  or  chemical,  in    matter 


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INTRODUCTION. 


63 


solid  or  liquid,  or  insulated  or  uninsulated, — as  if 
there  be  the  incidence  of  a  ball,  of  even  platinum 
upon  another  in  velocity  of  the  planet ;  or  whatever 
the  velocity ;  in  force  of  this  earth's  planetary 
weight  ;  or  if  it  be  projected,  merely,  in  velocity  of 
light ;  or  if  upon  it  there  be  a  beam  of  heat  in 
intensity  sufficient ;  or  through  it  a  current  of  elec- 
tricity— in  quantity  sufficient,  it  is  instantly  sublimed 
to  heat  and  light.  Or  if  upon  the  same  ball  there  be 
immoderate  static  force, — as  were  that  of  a  cold  of 
minus  1,000°  F.,  or  that  of  the  weight,  withou: 
motion,  of  this  earth,  or  that  of  a  light,  or  magne- 
tism the  intensest  possible,  it  were  as  instantly  dis- 
sipated and  occluded  in  a  medium  of  invisible  being 
such  as  is  that  between  matters  acting  at  a  distance. 
It  is  intended  that  there  are  stars  in  couples  ;  and 
the  sun  and  earth  and  the  eye  and  its  distant  object 
and  bodies  of  matter  in  attractions,  repulsions  and 
gravitations  of  each  other  ;  that  these  are  all  matters 
acting  at  a  distance,  whose  reciprocal  activities  were 
the  miracles  of  consequences  without  cause  if  there 
be  not  intermediate  an  invisible  being  of  the  same 
essential  substance,  in  reacting  with  which  they  are, 
in  effect,  reacting  with  each  other.  And  it  is  in- 
tended that  this  substance,  the  product  of  matter 
under  static  force,  is  the  same  as  that  in  phenomena 
of  heat  and  light  the  product  of  matter  under  force 
dynamic ;  and  that  the  existence  of  either,  as  such 
product,  is  sufficient  to  establish  that  all  matter,  me- 
tallic or  non-metallic,  or  basic   or  acid,  or  inorganic 


or  organic,  is  of  the  same  essential  substance,  and 
the  same  as  that  of  force,  and  that  the  substance  oi 
all  forces,  physical,  chemical,  physiological,  psy- 
cological  or  sociological,  are  essentially  the  same ; 
that  the  inordinate  dynamic  forces  of  impact,  pres- 
sure, projection,  heat  and  electricity,  in  produciuj^ 
all  kinds  of  matter  into  heat  and  light,  are  the  same 
essentially  as  are  those  of  cold  or  pressure  simply, 
or  hght  or  magnetism,  which  produce  it  into  cold 
and  dark,  and  that  this  one,  and  only  universal  force, 
whether  as  the  being  or  the  word  of  God,  or  as  a  being 
self-existent,  automatic,  autonomic  and  unique,  is 
the  being  possible  of  kindred  beings  different  of 
their  reciprocal  affinities  simply  through  reciprocal 
limitations  of  each  other  in  production  of  the  being 
intermediate  of  both  ;  that  such  are  the  electro- 
magnetic moments  of  heat  visible  in  light  from 
coincidence  and  differentiation  of  the  dynamic  forces 
in  impact,  pressure,  projection,  heat  or  electricity  ; 
and  such  the  magneto -electric  moments  of  darkness 
sensible  in  cold  from  the  coincidence  and  differentia- 
tion of  static  forces  in  cold,  pressure,  light  and  mag- 
netism. That  these  forces,  dynamic  or  static,  essen- 
tially the  same,  are  different  in  appearance  merely, 
and, — but  the  phenomenal  phases  of  an  original  and 
insensible  reality, — are  different  but  as  our  senses 
to  perceive  them  ;  that  our  senses  are  sight,  touch, 
taste,  smell  and  hearing ;  that  these  are  but  the 
points  of  the  incidences  of  exterior  realities  upon 
the  conscious  being  of   man  ;   that  this, — a   wheel 


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INTRODUCTION. 


65 


physiological  in  reactions  of  potential  coinciclenc( 
and  differentiation  with  exterior  realities,  is  suscep- 
tive of  impressions  in  touch,  taste,  smell  and  hear- 
ing at  four  points  of  its  periphery  in  revolution  on  its 
axis  in  the  sense  of  sight  to  which  they  report,  and 
which  therefore  is  the  systemic  sense  of  these  spe- 
cific in  determining  the  conscious  activities  of  man ; 
but  that  whatever  our  senses  of  such  exterior  reality, 
or  whether  we  see  it  as  being  in  force,  dynamic  or 
static,  or  as  heat  or  cold  ;  or  as  light,  or  dark,  or  as 
electricity,  or  magnetism,  or  space,  or  matter,  or  as 
the  molecule,  compound,  form  or  organism  of  mat- 
ter, or  as  star,  sun,  earth,  plant,  animal  or  man,  it  is 
the  being  possible  of  kindred  beings  di£ferent  of  their 
reciprocal  affinities  simply  in  reciprocal  limitations  of 
each  other.  That  such  is  the  moment  of  heat  from 
the  more  of  minus  electricity  to  the  less  of  plus ; 
and  such  the  moment  of  light  from  its  more  of  plus 
to  less  of  minus  and  the  electric  moment  of  more  of 
heat  to  less  of  light ;  and  the  magnetic  moment  of 
more  of  light  to  less  of  heat ;  and  the  acid  matter 
molecule  from  its  more  of  electricity  to  its  less  of 
magnetism ;  and  the  basic  matter  from  its  more  of 
magnetism  to  its  less  of  electricity. 

And  that  so  is  the  staminate  principle  of  the  plant 
dynamic  to  its  pistillate  static ;  and  so  the  sperm  and 
male  principle  of  the  animal  dynamic  to  the  germ 
and  female  static  ;  and  so  the  parent  of  the  human 
family  dynamic  to  the  progeny  static  ;  and  so  the 
centre  of  the  earth  dynamic  to  its  crust  static  ;  and  so 


the  centre  of  sun  dynamic  to  its  crust  static ;  and  so 
the  crusts  and  centres  of  the  stars  and  universe. 

It  is  intended  that  each  of  these  beings  in  force  is 
mediately  or  immediately  from  an  original  medium 
of  force  physiological,  and  that  each  is  itself  a  me- 
dium of  force  physiological  however  evo-involved 
from  its  original  state ;  that  in  each  there  are  self- 
insulation,  self -differentiation,  coincidence  and  dif- 
ferentiation analogously  such  as  are  these  in  that 
medium  of  force  between  electrodes,  from  which  of 
i^lectric  forces,  self-insulated,  self-differentiated,  and 
in  coincidence  and  differentiation  there  is  uncon- 
ducted  the  spark  of  heat  and  light,  or  conducted  the 
iriagneto-electric  spheroid  of  magnetic  moments 
about  the  axis  of  electrical  reactions.  And  that 
Bucli  are  the  reactions  of  the  like  forces  in  the  inter- 
vals of  clouds  in  polar  relations  to  each  other  ;  and 
tliat  analogously  such  are  the  reactions  between  in- 
organic matters  and  organic  matters,  and  the  physi- 
ological elements  of  plants,  animals  and  man  the 
bmng  possible  of  such  elements  reacting.  And  it  is 
intended  that  every  such  being  possible  is  the  being 
physiological,  and  that  every  such  is  in  a  wheel  of 
its  static  elements  in  revolution  on  their  axis  of  the 
dynamic.  That  these  elements  of  being  physical, 
chemical,  physiological,  psycological,  or  sociological 
are  beings  of  the  same  elements,  and  of  these  ele- 
inents  inversely  ;  that  so  they  are  vacua  and  plena, 
and  attractive  and  repulsive,  and  in  coincidence  and 
differentiation  in  production  of  such  wheel  physio- 


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INTRODUCTION. 


67 


logical  of  both  ;  and  that  thus  the  realit}^  whether  as 
being  simply  ;  or  as  the  being  finite  of  beings  infi- 
nite in  limitations  of  each  other  ;  or  the  word  of  God 
in  such  the  finite  of  his  beings  infinite  ;  or  force  in 
the  physical  forces,  heat,  light,  electricity  and  mag- 
netism, or  matter  metallic  or  non-metallic,  or  acid  or 
base,  inorganic  or  organic,  is  the  being  possible  of 
kindred  beings  different  of  their  reciprocal  affinities 
simply  in  reciprocal  limitations  of  each  other,  and 
as  such  is  being  physiological. 

And  that  of  this  there  is  teleologic  evo-involution. 
That,  as  in  every  original  medium  of  this  being, 
invisible  or  visible,  or  of  space  or  matter,  or  of  matter 
inorganic  or  organic,  there  are  its  self-insulation, 
self -differentiation,  coincidence  and  differentiation  in 
production  of  such  wheel  physiological,  so  in  the 
disk  of  such  wheel  there  are  media  in  every  way  but 
in  sizes  and  densities  the  same  as  the  original 
medium.  That  in  every  such  disk  tlie;.'e  are  normally 
four  such  media,  each  a  quadrant  of  such  disk,  in 
each  of  which,  for  tlie  same  reason,  there  are  self- 
insulation,  self -differentiation,  coincidence  and  differ- 
entiation in  production  of  wheels  physiological  in 
revolution  on  their  individual  axes  and  in  orbits  of 
revolution  on  the  parent  axis.  And  intended  that 
the  revolutions  of  the  axis  of  every  such  parent 
wheel  in  production  is  evolution,  and  resolutions  of 
the  disk  in  production  of  the  axis  of  peripherential 
and  progenital  wheels  is  involution,  and  that  this 
process  of  the  parent  wheel  into  progenital  wheels 


and  of  parent  life  into  parent  nature  is  teleologic,  it 
is  intended  that  such  process  is  one  of  teleologic 
evo-involution.  And— this  nature— that  thus  there 
is  reality  capable  of  nature  ;  and  capability  cause— 
the  cause  of  nature.  And  it  is  intended  that  of  the 
reality  there  is  nature  for  the  further  reason  that 
there  is  a  nature  possible  of  reality  ;  and— possi- 
l)ility  consequence— the  consequence  of  reality. 

It  is  intended  that  about  the  invisible  axis  of  the 
universe  there  are  stars  in  crusts  of  relative  matters 
invisible  or  visible  about  centres  of  relative  space 
invisible,   and    about   these    as   centres  suns   such, 
and  about  these  as  centres  planets  such  ;    of  which 
at  its   physiological   distance  from  the  axis  of  the 
universe  there  is   this  earth  a  planet  in  its  crust 
of    matter    visible   about    its    centre  of  space    in- 
visible.    The  crust  in   hollow   spherical  strata,  the 
first  of  which  is   of  platano-metallic  matter,  about 
which  there  is  such  stratum  of  metallic  oxide  matter 
in     archean    rocks ;     about    which    there    is    such 
stratum     of     hydrogens    oxide     in    water    liquid ; 
about    which    there    is    an    atmosphere    of    force 
in    60°   F.    of    heat  under    a   pressure    in    cold   of 
15  pounds  to   the  inch,  from  which  in  vapor  there 
are  forming  other  hydrogens  oxide  ;  from  vapors  of 
which   there  are   forming    viscid   and   protoplasmic 
ammonias  compound;  of  which  are  forming  plants 
possible,  of  which  are  forming  animals  possible,  of 
which  are  forming  man  possible.    And  intended  that 
in  the  space  centre  of  the  universe  there  is  the  cause 


68 


INTRODUCTION. 


invisible  of  its  crusts  of  stars,  suns   and  planets — 
consequences — visible ;  and  that  in   the  space  cen- 
tres of  stars  there  are  the   causes  invisible  of  their 
crusts  and   suns,  consequences  visible,  and  in  the 
space  centres  of  suns  the  causes  of  these  crusts  and 
planets  ;  and  that  in  the  space  centre  of  this  earth 
the  cause  of  its  platanic  crust,  the  cause  of  its  ar- 
chean  rock  crust,  the  cause  of  its  liquid  water  crust, 
the  cause  of  its  protoplasmic  crust,  the  cause  of  its 
plant  crust,  the  cause  of  its  animal  crust,  the  cause 
of  its  man  crust, — it  is  intended  that  these  actual  or 
theoretical  space  centres  are   jinalogously  the  same 
and  the  causes  invisible  of  their  consequences  visi- 
ble, and  the  lives  invisible  of  their  natures  visible  ; 
that  in  this  there  is  a  process  of  life  and  nature  fron) 
the  axis  of  the  universe,  and  that  this  process  visi- 
ble of  life  invisible  is  nature  and  that  there  is  nature. 
And  intended   that   each  such   nature  is  the  wheel 
physiological  of  forces  different  of  their  reciprocal 
affinities    simply   in   reciprocal    limitations  of  each 
other ;  and  that  of  this  the  space  centre  is  axle  and 
the   matter  crust  disk,  and   the  invisible  life  centre 
axle  and  the  matter  corpus  disk,  it  is  intended  that 
each  such  nature  is  possible  of  an  universal  reality 
in  evo-involution.     And  that  capability  is  cause  and 
possibility  consequence. 

Intended  that  truth  is  that  which  man  must  accept 
as  the  condition  of  his  existence  in  nature,  and  that, 
— of  nature, — he  is  of  the  evo-involutions  of  an 
invisible  reality  teleologic  in  plant,  animal  and  man 


INTRODUCTION. 


69 


at  this  earth's  surface,  in  conscience  of  whom  is  the 
instrument  through  which  he  sees  the  universe  of 
nature  apparent ;  it  is  intended  that  at  his  time  and 
place  posterior  to  the  animal  at  this  earth's  surface 
there  is  in  him  but  the  energy  and  inertia,  and  cause 
and  consequence,  and  life  and  nature  possible  to 
him  at  such  time  and  place  of  an  universal  reality 
in  evo-involution.  And, — but  this  to  man  himself, — 
there  is  but  this  to  the  conscience  of  man,  the  moral 
principle  of  his  being  under  the  conditions  physically 
possible.  That  analogously  such  is  that  of  the  star, 
sun  and  earth,  through  moral  ministrations  of  which 
each  at  its  time  and  place  is  the  being  physically 
possible,  and  that  of  the  plant  or  animal  through 
which  that  is  the  being  possible..  That  through  this 
there  is  antecedent  life  into  antecedent  nature  possi- 
ble, and  through  this  there  is  the  life  possible  to  man 
into  the  nature  possible.  That  in  this,  such  moral 
principle  can  accept  but  cause  to  consequence  and 
consequence  to  cause,  and  but  life  to  nature  and 
nature  to  life,  and  can  apply  to  nature  but  the  life  it 
receives,  and  that  so  only  can  the  conscious  moral 
principle  of  man, — whose  axioms,  reason,  science, 
knowledge,  religion,  and  life  itself  depend  upon  the 
exact  limitation  of  cause  to  consequence,  and  con- 
sequence to  cause,  and  life  to  nature,  and  nature  to 
life, — apply  to  man  or  nature  the  life  it  is  able  to 
receive. 

And  such  the  relation  of  conscious  man  to  the  be- 
ing of  this  universe,  it  is  intended  that  he  has  not 


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INTRODUCTION. 


71 


seen  cause  but  to  consequence  or  consequence  but 
to  cause,  and  that  he  cannot  conceive  the  cause  of 
other  or  more  or  less    than  consequence,  or  conse- 
quence of  other  or  more  or  less  than  cause.     And, — 
that  truth  to  man  which   he  must  accept  as  true  to 
the  continuation  of  his  existence, — and  that  truth  of 
which  he  cannot  conceive  to  the  contrary,  it  is  in- 
tended that  it  is  truth  to   man  whatever  be  the  fact 
that   there   is    to   him   an   universe  of   consequence 
to  an  universe  of  cause ;  that  these   are  as  factors 
to  product  and  product  to  factors.     That  in  these 
capability  is  cause  and  possibility  consaquence  ;    and 
that  the   reality  capable  of    nature  is  cause  of  na- 
ture, and  nature  possible  of  reality  is  consequence 
of  reality.     And  it  is  inteiided  that  not  only  is  this 
necessary  truth  to   man,  but   that  he  unconsciously 
and  consciously  accepts  it  as  true  in  the  laws  of 
physics,    chemistry,   physiology   and   sociology,    of 
which  he  is  in  practice  to  the  continuation  of  his  ex- 
istence and  in  consciously  making  it  the  rule  of  every 
mental  process. 

The  clown  or  idiot,  equally  with  the  sage,  is  an  en- 
cyclopedia of  truth,  the  title-page  of  which  he  cannot, 
or  can  but,  read.  And  the  young  mother  forms  to  ex- 
quisite symmetry  her  babe,  not  one  hair  of  whose 
head  or  nail  of  whose  linger  could  she  intelligently 
make  if  the  life  of  her  infant,  dearer  than  her  own, 
depended  on  it.  And  so  unconsciously  accepting 
the  truth  of  an  universe  of  cause  to  an  universe  of 
consequence,  man  consciously  accepts  that  truth  in 


his  every  act  of  reason,  science,  knowledge,  or  phi- 
losophy. 

It  is  thus  intended  that  there  is  nature  of  reality 
in  the  reason  that  the  reality  is  capable  of  nature 
and  nature  possible  of  reality ;  and  it  is  intended 
that  to  man,  at  least,  there  is  the  nature  of  reality  ; 
for  the  reason  that  if  to  him  there  be  nature  at  all  it 
is  of  reality  ;  for  the  reason  stated.  And  that  to 
him  there  is  nature  in  that  there  is  that  which  could 
not  be  without  it.  That  of  these  is  the  being  finite, 
or  the  word  of  God,  or  force,  or  space,  or  matter,  or 
hfe,  or  nature,  or  of  nature  the  universe,  or  star,  or 
sun,  or  earth,  or  plant,  or  animal,  or  man,  or  the 
conscience,  family  stock,  tribe  or  state  of  man,  no 
one  of  which  were  possible*but  as  there  be  nature 
in  evo-involution  of  the  word  of  God  in  force.  And 
that  there  is  nature  of  reality  for  the  reason  that  to 
man  there  is  nature  but  as  it  be  of  the  reality,  and 
that  for  reason  that  to  man  there  is  nature  of  reality 
there  is  in  truth  a  nature  of  reality,  and  for  the  rea- 
son that  rationally  there  is  nature  of  reality.  That 
by  induction  of  the  phenomena  of  nature  there  is 
the  hypothesis  of  reality  ;  and  by  deduction  from  the 
hypothesis  of  reality  there  are  the  phenomena  of 
nature.  That  in  induction  and  deduction  there  is 
reason  ;  that  reason  is  conclusive  upon  man's  belief, 
and  that  whether  bv  reason  of  induction  or  deduc- 
tion  there  is  to  man  the  truth  that  there  is  reality, 
and  that  there  is  nature,  and  that  of  the  reality  there 
is  nature.     And  for  the  reason  that  the  reality  were 


ijlii 


it 


72 


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INTRODUCTION. 


73 


cause,  and  that  without  this  there  is  no  cause  save 
that  in  the  authropomorph  of  man's  imagination, 
which,  not  the  cause  of  man  himself,  is  not  the 
cause  of  the  earth  and  universe.  And  for  these  rea- 
sons that  of  the  reality  there  is  nature,  whether 
there  be  man  in  that  nature  of  reality  or  not. 


Section  V. 
That  of  Natwe  there  is  Man, 

Intended  thus  that  of  the  reality  there  is  nature, 
whether  that  be  inclusive  of  man  in  matter  at  this  earth 
or  not ;  it  is  intended  that  it  is  inclusive,  and  this 
for  the  reason  that  man  himself  is  of  that  teleologic 
evo-involution  of  reality  of  which  are  the  natures  of 
the  universe  to  man,  and  each  of  these  a  nature, — 
that  man  is  a  nature.  And  intended  that  the  course 
of  the  reality  in  life  from  the  universe  is  nature,  it  is 
intended  that  man  of  that  course  is  of  that  nature, 
whether  in  continuation  of  that  nature  or  not.  And 
that  man  is  of  that  course.  Intended  that  there  is  na- 
ture in  the  reaction  of  polar  beings  finite ;  that  such 
are  the  elements  minus  and  plus  of  electric  force, 
and  south  and  north  of  magnetic  force  ;  and  heat, 
and  light,  and  electricity,  and  magnetism,  and  the 
staminate  and  pistillate  principles  of  the  plant,  and 
the  sperm  and  germ  of  the  animal ;  that  these  polar 
and  atomic  opposites  are  lives  in  production  through 
their  reciprocal  reactions  of  an  intermediary  invisible 
moral  being  nature ;  it  is  intended  that  analogously 
such  are  the  beings  that  concur  in  production  of  the 
being  man. 

It  is  intended  that  there  is  the  man  but  in  the 
family  of  children,  infant  and  adult,  about  a  store  of 
provisions  in  the  hands  of  the  parent, — female,  male, 
or  both, — for  their  safety  and  subsistence.     From 


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75 


the  coitions  of  animals,  male  and  female,  there  are 
offsprings,  and  from  those  of  two-footed  and  two- 
handed  there  are  also  offsprings,  but  these  are  not 
children  ;  and  the  parents  and  offspring  are  not  man 
until  that  offspring  shall  have  been  in  result  of  pro- 
visions made  by  its  immediate  or  remote  antecedent 
parents  for  its  support.  Between  the  male  and  female 
parents,  two-handed  and  two-footed,  as  between  any 
other  two  polar  beings,  there  are  reactions  in  produc- 
tion of  offspring, — the  disk  of  nature  about  that  axis 
of  life  ;  and  between  such  parents  and  off'spring  there 
are  reactions  in  production  of  the  herd  or  flock, — the 
disk  of  nature  about  that  axis  of  life, — while  yet  the 
two-footed  and  two-handed  beings  are  but  animals ; 
but  it  is  intended  that  when  two  such  animals,  male 
and  female,  through  their  industries,  economies  and 
other  virtues,  shall  have  accumulated  a  store  of 
provisions  upon  which  they  and  their  offspring  are 
able  to  subsist  and  do  subsist  in  security,  such  off- 
spring are  children,  and  those  parents  and  offspring, 
man. 

It  is  intended  that  the  test  of  whether  a  being  in 
tpiestion  be  man  or  animal  is  in  whether  the  condi- 
tion to  its  existence  be  a  previously  accumulated 
store  of  provisions,  moral  and  physical,  for  its  preser- 
vation, safety  and  support.  That  of  the  animal  it  is 
distinctive  that  it  endures  through  successive  gen- 
erations in  dependence  not  upon  the  provisions  that 
chance  to  be  about  it,  and  of  man  that  no  instant  of 
his  existence  were  possible  but  for  reason  of  some  pro- 


vision, moral  or  physical,  by  some  previously  exist- 
ing man  for  its  occurrence  ;  and  that  then  only 
when  there  comes  to  be  the  family  of  parents  and 
children  in  existence  by  virtue  of  such  store  which 
could  not  have  come  to  exist  without  is  that  family 
man.  And  it  is  intended  that  such  store  is  a  nature 
as  the  two-footed  and  two-handed  animal  is  a  nature, 
and  the  one  a  nature  of  life  and  nature  as  the  other, 
and  that  the  store  is  an  infinite  being  finite  as  is  man 
himself,  and  that  these  are  to  each  other  as  are  any 
other  two  atomic  beings  finite  in  polar  relations 
to  each  other,  and  the  store  life  to  animal  nature, 
and  that  the  store  and  animal  nature  produce  man, 
as  electricities  reacting  produce  the  spark,  or  the 
plant  principles  the  plant,  or  the  animal  principles 
the  animal ;  that  in  the  reaction  of  these  human  ele- 
ments, the  store  and  man,  there  is  the  human  family 
— a  physiological  being  as  automatic,  autonomic,  and 
teleologic  as  is  the  individual  man  himself,  or  ani- 
mal, plant,  earth,  sun,  star,  or  universe  ;  and  this  in 
moral  consequence  of  its  physical  cause,  as  is  man, 
animal,  or  plant ;  and  this  in  its  nature  to  its  life,  as 
is  man,  animal,  or  plant;  and  this  family  under 
moral  ministrations  of  an  invisible  genius  in  linear 
tradition  from  God  of  the  universe  in  force  as  is  the 
man,  animal,  or  plant. 

And  it  is  intended  that  man,  but  the  family  of 
parents  and  children  about  a  store  of  provisions  for 
its  support,  is  analogous  to  the  animal,  but  the  natu- 
ral group  of  animated  beings  al^out  a  store  of  provis- 


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INTRODUCTION. 


ions  they  are  instaiitly  accumulating  for  its  support, 
and  that  this  is  in  as  strict  analogy  to  the  plant,  but 
a  group  of  less  animated  beings  about  a  store  of  pro- 
visions which  in  their  beings  possible  they  are 
instantly  accumulating  for  its  support.  That  every 
man,  animal,  or  plant  is  a  being  physiological,  of 
kindred  beings  different  of  their  reciprocal  affinities 
simply  in  reciprocal  limitations  of  each  other,  with 
the  difference  only  that  the  plant  first  at  this  earth's 
surface,  and  in  representation  of  dynamic  being  from 
the  earth  and  static  from  the  air,  is  in  production  of 
these  into  a  stratum  of  organic  matter, — of  the  plants 
possible, — about  the  earth  ;  and  that  the  animal 
next  in  representation  of  the  same  dynamic  and 
static  beings  in  the  plant  is  in  production  of  these 
into  a  stratum  of  more  advanced  organic  matter, — 
of  the  animals  possible — about  the  earth  ;  and  that 
the  man,  next  in  representation  of  these  same  dy- 
namic and  static  beings  in  the  animal,  is  in  production 
of  these  into  yet  more  advanced  organic  matter, — of 
the  man  possible, — about  the  earth  ;  between  which, 
however,  there  is  the  further  difference  that  the  plant 
in  its  beings  possible  produces  from  the  earth's 
atmosphere  of  force  the  store  of  organic  matter 
which  did  not  previously  exist  as  such,  and  the  ani- 
mal in  its  beings  possible  but  procures  from  the 
plant  the  beings  so  prepared,  and  this  but  as  it 
avails  itself  of  it,  and  is  able  to  use  it  in  building  up 
itself,  while  the  man  to  start  on  the  new  course  of  his 
existence  must  procure  and  garner  the  store  of  such 
provisions  as  are  necessary  to  sustain  him  in  it. 


It  is  intended  that  these  are  but  the  successive 
stages  of  the  nature  of  the  earth  in  production  of  a 
limiting  membrane  of  vital  natures  about  it,  as  the 
plant  produces  its  bark  possible,  and  the  animal  its 
skin,  and  that  the  plant  is  endoderm  and  the  animal 
mesoderm,  and  man  the  ectoderm  from  whom  are  the 
architectural  projections  such  as  are  the  capillary 
appendages  of  the  animal. 

And  it  is  intended  that, — the  plant  of  nature  and 
the  animal  of  nature, — man  is  of  nature  for  the  rea- 
son that  he  can  have  come  to  exist  but  as  he  be  so 
produced  and  continue  to  exist  but  as  he  be  so  sup- 
ported, and  that  he  is  in  exact  analogy  to  the  ani- 
mal and  plant. 

It  is  intended  that  we  are  possessed,  but  by  deduc- 
tion from  hypothesis,  of  the  start  of  the  agamic 
family,  and  but  by  deduction  from  the  agamic  family 
of  the  start  of  the  polygamic,  but  that  we  have  not 
only  hypotheses  but  phenomena  for  the  start  of  the 
monogamic  family,  and  by  either  find  that  the  family 
exists  but  upon  previously  accumulated  provisions 
for  its  support  in  the  hands  of  the  male  parent  for 
administration;  that  the  monogamic  state,  whether 
a  constitutional  kingdom  or  a  representative  repub- 
lic, is  but  of  such  families  united  about  a  common 
store  which  in  theory  and  fact  has  been  contributed 
by  proprietary  male  parents,  and  which  in  theory  is 
at  the  disposition  but  of  such  parents. 

And  such  the  family,  it  is  intended  that  to  each  is 
its  tutelary  genius  ;  that  in  even  the  agamic  family 


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79 


there  are  the  mother  and  her  offspring  as  matures 
reacting  under  the  ministrations  of  an  invisible  hie, 
vvhich  assigns  to  the  mother  and  her  oiisprmg  in- 
fant and  adult,  their  reciprocal  rights  and  obliga- 
tions in  the  practice  of  which  there  are  peoples  ex- 
isting who  could  not  have  come  to  exist  or  have 
continued  to  exist  as  they  do  without  that  nature ; 
but  the  more  is  this  so  with  polygamic  family,  in 
which  reciprocal  activities  are  better  organized ;  and 
vet  the  more  in  the  monogamic  family,  the  children 
of  which  have  the  care  of  both  parents,  and  whose 
stores  of  provisions  are  held  by  one  parent  and  ad- 
ministered by  the  other.    That  families  so  far  as  they 
have  been  developed   are   agamic,  polygamic  and 
monogamic,   and  agamic  in  children  about  a  store 
in  the  hands  of  their  unmarried  mother,  and  poly- 
gamic in  children  of  several  mothers  about  a  store  in 
the  hands  of   their  single  father,  and  monogamic  n. 
children  of  a  single  mother  about  a  store  in  the 
hands  of  their  single  father  ;  and  that  of  the  agamic 
there  are  savage  stocks,  and  of  the  polygamic  bar- 
barous tribes,  and  of  the  monogamic  civil  states,  un- 
der a  government   by  appointment  of   proprietary 
male  parents,  under  the  protection  of  a  state  gov- 
ernment theoretically  appointed  and  sustained  by 
the  proprietary  male  parents  of  the  famiUes  contrib- 
uting the  pubhc  fund  for, its  support. 

And  such  the  family  of  man  so  far  as  it  is  yet  eyo- 
involved  with  capacity  for  such  further  evo-involu- 
tion  as  may  be  possible  to  the  best  and  most  of  man. 


it  is  intended  that  this  man, — consisting  in  the 
family, — is  in  strict  analogy  to  the  animal  and 
plant.  That  the  plant  is  of  orders  cryptogamic, 
phanerogamic,  endogens  and  exogens ;  and  the 
animal  of  orders  radiate,  annulate,  articulate 
and  vertebrate,  and  the  vertebrate  of  orders  fish, 
reptile,  degitigrade  and  plantigrade ;  and  man 
of  the  orders  agamic,  polygamic  and  monogamic 
accomplished,  with  a  compound  monogamic  unac- 
complished ;  and  that  the  cryptogamic  plant  is  anal- 
ogous to  the  radiate  animal  and  to  the  agamic 
man,  and  the  endogenous  plant  to  the  articulate  ani- 
mal and  polygamic  man,  and  the  exogenous  plant  to 
I  the  vertebrate  animal  and  monogamic  man.  And  as 
above  the  plant  there  is  the  animal  and  above  the 
animal  man,  that  the  exogenous  plant  is  analogous  to 
the  animal,  into  evo-involution  of  which  it  goes  as 
the  vertebrate  animal  is  to  the  man  compounded  of 
unequal  races  of  unilateral  man  ;  and  that  man  is 
analogous  to  the  animal  and  plant  in  being  but  a 
variation  in  life  to  its  nature  possible.  That  in  either 
of  these  families  children  are  born  and  reared  to  the 
opportunity  themselves  of  bearing  children  who  were 
not  without,  and  that  of  their  associated  labors  and 
economies  there  are  more  and  better  provisions 
made  for  longer,  better  and  more  abundant  lives 
than  were  possible  without  association.  That  in 
this  there  are  more  of  animal  beings  than  were  pos- 
sible without,  and  these  coming  to  exist  as  human 
beings  there  were  more  human  beings  than  were  pos- 


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80 


INTRODUCTION. 


sible  without ;  and, — intended  that  there  is  man  but 
in  the  family,  and  that  the  family  of  man  is  analo- 
gous to  the  animal  and  plant,  and  that  the  plant  is 
in  evo-involution  to  its  best  and  most,  and  the  animal 
also,  each  a  variation,  and  each  the  variation  in  the 
antecedent  animal  or  plant  to  its  being  the  more  and 
better  sequent  animal  or  plant  possible, — it  is  in- 
tended that  so  by  variations,  each  the  evo-involution 
possible,  the  man  advances  to  the  man  possible,  and 
that  such  is  agamic  into  polygamic  man,  and  such 
polygamic  into  monogamic  man,  and  that  such  will 
be  that  of  monogamic  into  compound  man  ;  and  that 
man  in  such  variation  evolves  to  its  possibilities  of 
being  best  and  most  as  does  the  animal  or  plant,  and 
that  the  evolution  of  the  family  is  to  its  means  of 
subsistence  simply  as  are  those  of  the  animal  or 
plant. 

It  is  intended  that  to  its  means  of  subsistence 
simply  are  its  evo-involutious  ;  that  so  the  alga  from 
infusions  of  organic  matters  in  the  sibirean  seas  be- 
come the  fungus  to  procure  its  food  from  the  soil  as 
it  becomes  exposed  ;  and  so  the  fungus  becomes  the 
lichen  to  produce  it  in  intermediation  of  matters 
from  the  earth  and  air  ;  and  so  the  lichen  became 
the  moss  to  the  better  mediation  of  such  matters  ; 
and  the  moss  the  equisetum,  and  this  the  fern  for  the 
same  reason,  and  that  thus  the  cryptogamic  and  sub- 
terranean fern  became  the  phanerogamic  aerial  and 
endogenous  palm,  and  thus  the  palm  the  exogenous 
and  angiospermous  oak ;  and  that  thus  the  sulphos- 


pharaonias  compound  became  the  amoeboid  radiate, 
and  this  the  structured  radiate,  and  this  the  annu- 
late of  successive  radiates  continuous  ;  and  such  the 
articulate  from  sectional  annulates,  and  the  verte- 
brate from  doubled  articulates.  And  so  of  verte- 
brates :  the  fish,  originally,  also,  with  the  alga,  in  the 
silurean  seas,  became  the  reptile  to  its  food  in 
marshes  forming  ;  and  this  the  quadra-digitigrade 
to  its  food  from  fronds  ;  and  this  the  quadra-planti- 
grade to  its  food  by  capture  ;  and  this  the  four- 
handed  animal  to  its  food  by  capture,  climbing  and 
manipulation  ;  and  this  the  two-footed  and  two- 
handed  animal  to  its  food  from  methods  of  capture, 
(limbing  and  manipulation. 

It  is  intended  that  the  two-handed  and  two-footed 
iuiimal  is  composite  of  the  two  races  immediately 
iiutecedent.  That  in  its  two  feet,  upon  the  arches 
of  which  from  heel  to  toe  it  stands,  it  has  the 
equivalents  of  the  four  feet  of  the  plantigrade,  and 
in  its  two  hands  of  greater  flexibility,  the  equiva- 
lents of  the  four  hands  of  the  four-handed  animal ; 
and  that  standing  and  moving  on  the  four  feet  of 
the  one,  and  manipulating  with  the  four  hands  of 
the  other,  it  is  in  condition  to  co-ordinate  the  activi- 
ties of  both,  and  to  procure  by  methods  of  capture, 
climbing  and  manipulation  the  more  of  the  pro- 
visions for  subsistence  and  safety  than  were  possi- 
ble to  either  or  both  its  antecedents ;  but  that  even 
then  such  animal  was  not  man,  nor  until  in  the 
union  of  two  such  animals  there  was  a  new  and  com- 


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INTRODUCTION. 


83 


pound  being  of  them  both,  as  different  from   the 
animal  as  the  animal  from  the  plant. 

It  is  intended  that  originally  in  two  such   two- 
footed  and  two-handed  animals   of  opposite  sexes 
there  was  the  superabundance   of  seed  there  is  in 
uniaxial  animals,  and  this  seed  scattered  as  by  such 
animal  in  but  the  reproduction  of   itself ;    but  that 
under  an  inexorable  law  of  its  moral  being  the  sexes 
of  this   animal  were  forced  to   an  union  in  which 
their  reproductive  powers  were  consecrated  to  each 
other  as  fully  as  are  these  of  the  seed  of  the  plant 
or  the  ovum  of  the  animal,  to  the  production  of  the 
family  intermediate  of  both.     That  in  result  of  such 
consecration  there  is  the  family,  and  in  this  family 
man  ;  that  before  the  family  there  was  not  man,  or 
man  before  the  family  ;    that  this  variation  is  from 
the  uniaxial  to  the  biaxial  animal.     That  the  simple 
animal  in  the  continuation  of  its  existence  through 
coition  merely  is  uniaxial,  while  this  as  man,  in  the 
continuation  of  his  existence  through  offspring  in 
revolutions  on  their  axis  and  in  orbits  of  revolution 
on  the  axis  of  parents  in  coition,  is  biaxial,  and  that 
the  animal  in  living  but  upon  its  individual  means  of 
subsistence  is  sohtary,   while  man  in  living  upon 
associated  means  is  social.     That  this  in  man  is  a 
variation  merely  to  the  means  of    subsistence ;   that 
this    in   natures    antecedent   is  evo-involution   and 
intended  that  there  is  nature  in  teleologic  evo-invo- 
lution of  an  universal  reahty,  it  is  intended  that  there 
is  man  of  that  nature.     And  that  man  is  of  nature 


therefore  for  the  reason  that  nature,  but  such  reality 
in  evo-involution,  is  capable  of  man,  but  such  evo- 
involution,  and  capable  of  man,  is  cause  of  man,  in 
that  in  this  universe,  but  of  cause  to  consequence, 
capability  is  cause.  And  that  man  is  of  nature  for 
the  reason  that  he  is  possible  of  nature,  and  possi- 
bility consequence — the  consequence  of  nature ;  and 
for  the  reason  that  if  nature,  capable,  be  not  cause 
of  man,  there  is  the  miracle  of  cause  without  conse- 
quence ;  and  if  man  possible  be  not  consequence  of 
nature,  there  is  the  miracle  of  consequence  without 
cause,  and  that  there  is  not  such  miracle. 

It  is  intended  that  man  has  axioms,  reasons,  sci- 
ence, knowledge,  philosophy,  religion  and  existence 
even  but  in  acceptance  of  the  truth  that  there  is  an 
universe  of  cause  to  an  universe  of  consequence,  and 
an  universe  of  consequence  to  an  universe  of  cause. 
That  other  than  this  he  has  not  seen  and  cannot  see ; 
that  what  he  has  not  seen  and  cannot  see  is  miracle; 
that  to  him,  therefore,  there  is  no  such  miracle,  and 
that  man  is  of  that  nature  of  which  he  is  the  conse- 
quence. And  that  man  is  of  nature  but  the  word  of 
God,  or,  else,  of  the  anthropomorphic  theos  of  his 
own  imagination.  At  the  verge  of  nature  here,  and 
diffident  of  duty,  man  peers  into  and  calls  upon  the 
void,  and  sees  but  his  own  image  reflected,  and  hears 
but  the  echoes  of  his  own  voice ;  the  which  he  takes 
for  the  visage  and  the  voice  of  his  moral  monitor 
invoked,  and  him  for  his  God,  with  the  concession 
only  that  he  is  also  the  God  of  other  beings  with 


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INTRODUCTION. 


him  in  this  universe,  but  concerned  in  these  but  as 
they  be  tributary  to  the  magnificence  of  man  ;  and 
it  is  intended  that  this  is  the  idol  of  the  agamic  sav- 
age and  the  myth  of  the  polygamic  tribe  and  the 
theos  of  the  monogamic  state,  and  that  this  anthro- 
pomorphic theos,  from  whom  are  the  moralities  of 
monogamic  man,  is  of  man's  own  appointment,  and 
to  the  end  but  of  approving  what  the  man  ca- 
pable of  such  appointment  may  wish  to  do  in  do- 
minion   over   other   peoples   and   creatures   of   this 

universe. 

But  it  is  intended  that  man  is  not  such  self- 
existent  autonomy,  and,  existing,  that  he  exists  but 
as  consequence  of  some  antecedent  cause  ;  and  that 
this  in  the  nature  of  God's  univeral  word  of  which 
he  is  possible,  and  that  thus  he  is  possible  of 
nature  ;  and  that  he  is  in  and  of  the  nature  of  God's 
universal  word  for  the  reason  that  in  this  is  the  only 
pre-existent  being  of  this  universe,  and  not  of  cause 
in  this  that  he  is  not  of  cause  in  any  being  of  this 
universe,  and  is  therefore  such  miracle  of  conse- 
ouence  without  cause,  he  is  not. 

And  it  is  intended  that  man  is  of  nature  in  that 
nature  is  the  reality  in  evo-involution,  and  that  the 
reality  is  the  being  finite  of  the  word  of  God  in  force  ; 
and  that  man  is  possible  of  being  finite,  and  possible 
of  the  word  of  God,  and  possible  of  force,  and  pos- 
sible of  this  in  evo-involution.  And  of  being  finite,  for 
the  reason  that  there  is  an  exclusive  universe  of  be- 
ing finite  into  the  beings  finite  of  it  possible,  and  that 


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85 


man,  not  infinite,  is  being  finite,  and  possible  of  such 
universe  of  being  finite.  And  of  the  word  of  God 
for  the  further  reason  that  God  is  the  causing  cause 
of  all  the  being  of  this  universe,  and  this  through 
the  word  of  his  own  beings  infinite  in  limitations  of 
each  other  to  such  cause  of  the  beings  of  them  pos- 
sible ;  and  that  man  is  possible  of  the  word  of  God 
for  the  reason  that  he  is  possible  of  God,  and  possi- 
ble of  God  for  the  reason  that  God,  capable  of  the 
stars,  sun,  earth,  plant  and  animal  from  the  universe 
to  man,  is  capable  of  man.  And  of  force,  for  the  rea- 
son that  force  is  the  word  of  God,  and  man  possi- 
ble of  the  word  is  possible  of  force ;  and  for  the 
reason  that  force  is  infinite  being  finite,  and  man 
possible  of  this  is  possible  of  force,  and  that  force  is 
the  only  source  of  space  and  matter,  and  that  in  man 
there  are  space  and  matter  possible  of  that  source. 
And  that  force  is  the  only  source  of  Hfe  and  nature, 
and  that  in  man  there  are  life  and  nature  possible  of 
that  source. 

And  that  of  nature  there  is  man,  for  the  reason 
that  in  man  there  is  nothing  not  in  nature.  That 
in  man  there  are  but  the  matter  elements,  oxygen, 
hydrogen,  nitrogen,  carbon,  sulphur  and  phosphorus, 
and  that  there  are  these  in  the  animal,  and  these  in 
the  plant,  saving  sulphur  and  phosphorus,  the  one 
but  doubled  oxygen  and  the  other  quadrupled  nitro- 
gen. And  that  in  man  there  are  but  the  physical 
forces,  heat,  light,  electricity  and  magnetism ;  and 
that  there  are  these  in  the  animal  and  plant,  for  the 


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87 


reason  that  every  element  of  matter  in  man,  animal 
or  plant  is  but  of  such  forces  in  reciprocal  limita- 
tions of  each  other.  And  though  in  man  there  be 
the  forces,  chemical,  physical  and  pliysiological, 
there  are  these  in  the  animal,  and  all  but  the  psyco- 
logical  in  the  plant,  and  that  the  only  force  in  man 
not  specifically  in  the  animal  is  the  force  sociological, 
which  he  incurs  but  as  from  the  solitary  animal  he 
becomes  social ;  but  that  of  this  force  even  there  are 
its  foreshadows  in  the  hives  of  bees  and  hills  of  ants, 
and  in  the  herds  of  brutes  and  broods  of  fowls. 
And  that  in  man  there  is  life  ;  but  so  also  is  there  in 
the  animal  and  plant ;  and  nature,  but  so  also  is 
there  in  the  animal  or  plant;  and  conscience,  so 
also  in  the  animal  and  plant. 

It  is  intended  that  to  every  being  at  this  earth  there 
is  the  moral  principle  of  its  being  physically  possible, 
and  that  this  physical  principle  is  its  life,  of  which  its 
moral  being  possible  is  nature ;  and  that  this  perceptive 
of  conditions  incident,  is  its  conscience,  to  perceive 
the  conditions  upon  which  there  is  the  continuation 
of  its  existence  ;  and  to  order  compliance  with  such 
conditions,  and  that  this  has  man,  but  that  this  also 
has  the  animal  or  plant,  with  the  difference  only  that 
the  conscience  of  the  plant  is  intuitive  of  conditions 
experienced  in  its  nature  but  not  recorded  in  its  life, 
and  not  therefore  recalled  for  reflection  to  the  exi- 
gencies of  the  current  nature  of  that  life.  And  that 
the  conscience  of  the  animal  is  naturally  intuitive  of 
conditions  experienced  but  not  recorded  or  recalled, 


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but  is  instinctive  of  conditions  experienced  in  its 
Hfe  and  recorded  in  its  nature  but  not  recalled  for 
reflection  to  the  exigencies  of  its  current  Hfe  ;  while 
the  conscience  of  man  is  not  only  intuitive  of  ex- 
periences of  life  unrecorded  and  unrecalled  as  is 
the  conscience  of  the  plant,  and  instinctive  of  ex- 
perience recorded  but  not  recalled  as  is  the  conscience 
of  the  animal,  but  is  reflective  of  experienced  condi- 
tions not  only  recorded  in  it  but  recalled  for  reflec- 
tion to  the  exigencies  of  the  current  nature  of  his  life. 

It  is  intended  that  to  each  being  in  nature  there 
is  the  conscious  moral  principle  necessary  to  its 
office  in  sustaining  such  nature  in  existence  ;  that 
as  nature  advances  to  its  successive  stages  from  the 
axis  of  the  universe  or  earth  it  advances  also  in  the 
moral  being  to  sustain  it  on  such  stage ;  that  so  ad- 
vanced is  the  conscience  of  the  plant  to  prompt  the 
physical,  chemical  and  physiological  activities  neces- 
sary ;  and  such  the  conscience  of  the  animal  to 
prompt  also  the  psycological  activities  necessary  to 
its  procurement  of  food  and  escape  of  danger ;  and 
that  such  is  the  conscience  of  man  necessary  to  the 
associated  methods  of  procuring  food  and  escaping 
danger,  through  which  only  is  there  the  man  pos- 
sible. 

It  is  intended  that  every  nature,  advancing  to  its 
higher  stages,  retains  the  impressions  but  loses  the 
consciousness  of  its  experiences  in  antecedent  states 
while  intensely  sensitive  of  its  experiences  in  the 
state  at  which  it  is ;  and   that   while   man   uncon- 


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sciously  is  as  capable  as  is  the  plant  of  physical, 
chemical  and  physiological  activities,  and  as  capable 
as  is  the  animal  of  the  psycological  activities  upon 
which  his  plant  and  animal  natures  depend,  he  i.s 
consciously  capable  but  of  the  sociological  activities 
necessary  to  his  existence  in  a  society  of  man. 

But  intended  that  the  conscience  of  man  is  but 
sufficient  to  sustain  him  at  his  time  and  place  in 
nature ;  it  is  intended  that  so,  also,  is  the  conscience 
of  the  animal  sufficient  to  sustain  it,  and  so  that  of 
the  plant,  and  of  the  earth  and  sun,  and  star  and 
universe,  and    that     for   reason   of    his   conscience, 
therefore,  there  is  not  in  man  that   there   is  not   in 
nature    antecedent.     And   that   in   man   there   are 
axioms  in  acceptance  of  the  universal  law  of  cause 
to    consequence    and    consequence    to   cause   upon 
which  man's  beings  physical  and  moral  depend  for 
their  existence.     But  that  so  also  are  these  in  the 
animal  and  plant ;  that  the   plant  or  animal  exists 
but  upon  the  law  of  cause  to  consequence  and  con- 
sequence  to    cause ;  that,  to    exist    of  such   law,  it 
must  accept  such  law  ;  that  such   acceptances  are 
axioms  and  that  unconsciously  there  are  axioms  in 
plants  and  animals  as  consciously  there  are  in  man. 
And  that  in  man   there  is  reason.     That  between 
his  conscious  experiences  and  their  objective  causes 
there  are  ratios  susceptive  of  comparative  observa- 
tion ;  that  such  comparative  ratios  in  sensations  to 
the  causes  of  them  there  is  reason,  deductive  and  in- 
ductive,  and   deductive    of   consequences   unknowi^ 


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from  causes  known  and  inductive  of  cause  unknown 
from  consequences  known.  But  this  reason  with 
even  greater  precision  has  the  animal  or  plant :  they 
are  not  perplexed  by  the  social  engagements  of  man, 
but  to  the  extent  of  their  respective  offices  in  pre- 
serving their  respective  existences  the  plant  and 
animal  exercise  a  reason  more  faultless  than  that 
of  man, — more  often  wrong  than  right  in  its  sugges- 
tions,—and  which,  at  last,  is  but  able  to  accept  the 
facts  which  are  found  to  be  accomplished. 

And  that  in  man  there  is  knowledge  ;  but  so  also  is 
there  in  the  animal  or  plant,  and  that  the  animal  or 
plant  are  in  the  constant  practice  of  truths  which  it 
is  probable  the  conscious  man  will  never  know,  how- 
ever unconsciously  he  may  himself  be  in  familiar 
practice  of  such  truths. 

And  that  in  man  there  is  reHgion  ;  but  that  so  also 
is  there  in  the  animal  and  plant.  That  religion  is  the 
acceptance  and  practice  of  the  word  of  God.  That  to 
every  nature  there  is  in  its  being  merely  the  mandate 
that  at  its  place  and  time  it  be  its  most  and  its  best ;  that 
it  be  its  most ;  that  obedience  to  this  mandate  is  relig- 
ion ;  that  the  obedience  of  the  plant  or  animal  is  more 
imphcit  than  is  that  of  man ;  that  he  has  been  misled 
into  theologies  by  the  anthropomorphic  theos  of  his 
own  imagination,  which  have  been  as  variant  from 
religion  as  are  the  ruUngs  of  theology  from  the  most 
and  best  of  men  ;  and,  such  religion,  the  animal  or 
plant  is  more  religious  than  is  man. 

That  in  man  there  is  a  soul ;  but  that   so  also  is 


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there  in  the  animal  or  plant.     That  this  conscience 
and  moral  principle  in  man,  throngli  which  he  takes 
the  precept  that  he  be  his  most  and  best  to  the  uses 
to  be  made  of  him,  is  itself  the  soul  of  man ;  that 
discharged  of  its  office  in  the  man  ceasing  to  exist, 
improved  or  not,  it  survives  him,  and,  improved,  to 
form  into  an  atmosphere  of  moral  being  about  man 
analogously  such  as  is  that  atmosphere   of  moral 
being  in  which  are  formed  its  elements   of   organic 
matter  about  the  earth,  and   these  into  plants  and 
animals  and  man ;  that  in  this  soul  of  man  there  are 
through  successive  generations  successive  advance- 
ments to  that  it  should  be  in  correspondence,  with 
which  there  are  continued  advancements  in  man  to 
what  he  should  and  must  be.     But,  such  the  soul  of 
man,  that  analogously  such  is  the  soul  of  the  plant 
or  animal ;  that  in  each  there  is  the  moral  principle, 
to  which  there  is  the  mandate  that  it  be  its  best  and 
most ;  that  this  advances,  and  under  its   moral  min- 
istrations in  such  advancement  there  is  the  plant  or 
animal  possible. 

That  to  the  soul  of  man  there  is  its  heaven  ;  but 
that  so  also  is  there  to  that  of  the  animal  or  plant.  In- 
tended that  there  is  a  moral  atmosphere  of  human 
being  aV)out  man  analogous  to  that  terrestrial  about 
the  earth,  it  is  intended  that  this  is  but  of  the  con- 
sciences and  those  the  souls  of  bettered  men  de- 
parted from  this  life ;  that  not  exiled  gratuitously  to 
another  sphere  of  being,  they  are  permitted  to  hover 
about  the  race  of  man,  and  by  their  silent  ministra- 


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tions  to  better  and  enlarge  it ;  that  these  are  felt  in 
moral  suasions  and  the  charities  and  equities  and 
laws  and  civilizations  of  man,  which,  though  quite 
invisible,  are  upon  him,  and,  from  some  such  invisi- 
ble power,  with  a  force  which  man  resists  but  at  the 
expense  of  his  existence.  That  this  is  a  heaven, 
and  that  there  is  such  heaven  for  the  moral  being 
and  plant  and  animal ;  that  about  every  class,  order, 
genus,  or  species  of  plant  or  animal  there  is  an  in- 
visible moral  being  to  prescribe  its  course  in  being 
possible,  and  to  force  it  to  the  adoption  of  such 
course ;  that  this  can  be  but  of  the  spirits  of  antece- 
dent beings,  plant  or  animal ;  that  such  assembly  ol 
spirits,  plant  or  animal,  were  a  heaven  as  about 
everv  race  there  is  the  heaven  of  the  souls  of  man  : 
and  there  is  a  heaven  to  the  souls  of  man  but  as 
there  is  analogously  a  heaven  to  these  of  animals  and 
plants. 

That  in  man  there  is  property  but  only  as  there 
is  property  in  animals  and  plants.  That  of  the  two- 
handed  and  two-footed  animals  there  are  hundreds  of 
thousands  in  man  to  the  one  there  were  without  such 
association  ;  as  in  the  temple  there  are  hundreds  of 
thousands  of  stones  there  were  not  without,  and  as 
in  the  oak  there  are  hundreds  of  thousands  of  the 
beings  in  the  acorn  from  which  it  started  to  become 
the  oak,  and  as  many  in  the  animal  of  the  beings  in 
its  ovum ;  and  that  as  to  each  stem,  or  plant,  or 
animal  being  there  has  been  the  cause  of  its  being 
such  as  it  is,  and  where  it  is  in  such  temple,  tree,  or 


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animal ;  and  that  as  there  is  in  each  the  right  an  1 
power  to  retain  its  existence  and  position  in  such 
temple,  tree,  or  animal,  it  is  intended  that  this  right 
and  power  is  its  property ;  and  that  of  this  property 
there  is  an  invisible  atmosphere  of  moral  being,  and 
this  an  autonomy  of  atomic  autonomies  such  as  is 
that  about  the  surface  of  this  earth,  the  electrical 
disturbances  of  which  at  any  one  point  are  felt  and 
may  be  recorded  at  another,  however  distant.    That 
such  the  atmosphere  of  properties  about  the  earth, 
such  is  that  about  the  temple,  tree,  or  animal ;  such 
is  that  also  in  man,  and  about  the  family  and  states 
and  state  of  man.     That  while  the  individual  man  is 
conscious  but  of  his  own  individual  being  and  of  the 
means  to  the  preservation  of  its  existence  in  a  hori- 
zontal plane  of  such  beings,  he  is  in  fact  but  the  unit 
of  an  organic  group  termed  the  family,  itself  but  the 
unit   of    a   larger   organic  group  termed  the  stock, 
tribe,  or  states.     That  each  family  is  about  a  store 
of  provisions  for  its  support,  and  each  stock,  tribe, 
or  state  about  such  store,  and  the  stocks,  tribes,  and 
states   about   such   store.     That   this  store   is   the 
moral  being  of  the  two-footed  and  two-handed  ani- 
mal developed  in  the  process  of  its  becoming  man ; 
that  in  it,  to  the  extent  of  his  rights,  each  partici- 
pates ;  that  this  right  of  participation  is  his  prop- 
erty, and  that  of  these  properties  there  is  the  moral 
atmosphere  of  man  integrated  and   static    in  visible 
means  to  the  support  and  preservation  of  man,  such 
as  are  implements,  structures  and  lands  appropriated, 


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and  dynamic  and  fluid  in  tokens  of  properties  we 
term  money  ;  that  this  is  continuous,  and  in  an  au- 
tonomic atmosphere  of  power  over  man  apparent 
in  the  fact  that  whoso  offers  the  price, — and  by  post 
or  telegraph,  of  property  in  money  becomes  its  owner. 
And  such  the  property  and  supply  to  the  wants  of 
man  through  which  he  is  integrated  into  families  and 
states  of  man,  that  analogously  such  is  the  property 
of  the  constituents  of  the  temple,  plant,  or  animal 
through  which  they  are  caused,  placed,  and  sustained 
in  their  respective  places.  And  that  man  does  not 
see  himself  as  such  constituent  of  such  being  of  him- 
self is  not  more  conclusive  that  such  being  of  him- 
self does  not  exist  than  that  the  blindness  of  the 
unit  of  the  temple,  plant,  or  animal  to  the  existence 
of  such  is  conclusive  it  does  not  exist ;  and  that  there 
is  property  in  man  but  as  there  be  property  in  plant 
or  animal. 

And  that  man  is  of  nature  in  that  there  is  no  rea- 
son that  he  be  not.  That  nature  of  the  word  of  God 
being  capable  of  man  there  is  no  reason  it  be  not 
cause  of  man.  That  man  being  possible  of  the  nature 
of  such  word  there  is  no  reason  that  he  be  not  con- 
sequence of  that  word.  That  God  in  use  of  such 
means  to  nature  will  not  gratuitously  have  used  other 
means  to  man.  That  there  were  no  necessity  for 
such  change  of  means,  and  no  reason  for  such  change  ; 
that  there  is  none  in  the  superior  importance  of  man. 
That  to  nature  man  is  less  important  than  the  animal 
of  which  he  is  but  a  specific  variation,  and  the  animal 


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of  less  importance  than  the  plant  of  which  it  is  but 
such  variation,  and  the  plant  of  less  importance  than 
the  earth  of  which  it  is  but  an  inconsiderable  output 
and  without  which  the  earth  to  the  universe  of  nature 
were  scarcely  less  important  than  it  is.     Nor  can  God 
have  wanted  man  to  help  him  in  his  work  of  finishing 
organic  nature  at  this  earth  ;  nor  does  man  intelli- 
gently help  God  in  such  work  when  his  only  effort 
has  been  to  substitute  for  God  the  theos  of  his  own 
imagination  and  when  his  acceptance  of  the  word  of 
God  in  his  own  being  has  been  in  invltum  and  un- 
der protest  and  but  as  his  being  intended  has  become 
a  fact  accomplished  ;  nor  does  man  help  God  in  mak- 
ing the  family  and  state  of  man,  which  he  refuses  to 
recognize  as  the  work  of  God,  but  claims  as  his  own 
invention  and  to  be  discarded  when  he  pleases,  and 
which  the  firmest  monogamic  states  are  now  indus- 
trious to  discard  in  their  discarding  the  conditions  of 
the  family  and  in  putting  the  property  and  moral  being 
of  the  state  under  proletariate  ferments ;  nor  is  there 
reason  that  God,  not  seeing  fit  to  use  other  means  to 
man,  shall  have  allowed  other  God  to  use  them,  or 
to  vest  man  with  other  powers  than  these  with  which 
he  himself  has  seen  fit  to  vest  him. 

Intended  that  man  is  of  the  original  endowment 
of  realitv  in  nature  or  of  some  additional  endowment, 
it  is  intended  that  he  is  not  of  additional  endow- 
ment for  the  reasons  stated;  that  he  exhibits  no 
such  endowment ;  that  there  is  no  reason  for  such 
endowment  and  that  every  instance  of  such  endow- 


ment   were  the  miracle   of  a  consequence  in  man 
without  cause  in  antecedent  nature ;  which  man  in 
his  axioms,  reason,  knowledge,  religion  and  life  it- 
self persistently    repudiates.     And    that  man  is  of 
nature  in  that  there  is  that  in  nature  of  the  universe 
which  could  not  be  without  man   in   nature   at  this 
earth  ;  that  there  were  not  the  nature  of  this  uni- 
verse without,  at  its  time  and  place, — the  nature  of 
this  earth,  and  nor  more  or  less  than  just  this  earth  ; 
and  that  there  were  not  this  earth  as  it  is   but  as 
there  be  the  plant,  or  the  plant  but  as  there  be  the 
animal,  or  the  animal  but  as  there  be  man,  or  man 
but  as  there  be  his  conscience  of   conditions  inci- 
dent   in  making  man  the  man  possible.     Aiid  that 
man  is  of  nature  in  that  in  man  there  is  that  which 
were  not  without  nature.     That  to  the  conscience  of 
man,  such  as  it  is,  there  is  of  necessity  man,  and  to 
man  of  necessity  the  animal,  and  to  the  animal  the 
plant,  and  to  the  plant  the  earth,  and  man  were  as 
impossible  without  such  antecedent  natures  as  such 
natures  w^ere  without  man.     And  man  is  of  nature 
if  there  be  man  who  were  so  without  other  source 
than  the  word  of  God  through  nature,  and  there  is 
man  if  there  be  that  which  could  not  be  without 
him,  and  without  which  he  could  not  be.    That  such 
being  is  God,  or  the  word  of  God,  or  being  finite,  or 
force,  or  the  moment  of  thermal,  photal,  electric,  or 
magnetic  force,  or  the  moment  of  space,  or  the  mole- 
cule, compound  or  form  of  matter  inorganic  or  or- 
ganic, or  the  plant  or  animal,  or  the   earth   or  sun, 


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or  star  or  universe  ;  that  as   there  is  not   only  the 
one  but  the  every  one  of  these,  and  that  as  of  these 
there  is  man  and  man  of  nature,  that  as  there  are 
these   or  the  one  of  these,  there  is  man   of  nature. 
\nd  that  man  is  of  nature  in  that  in  man  there  are 
axioms  but  in  acceptant  expressions  of  a  nature  of 
reality  •  and  that  in  man  there  is  reason  but  in  such 
expression  of  such  nature ;  and  that  in  man  there  is 
knowledge,  religion,  and  life  and  space   and  matter 
and  man  himself  but  such  expression.     Nor  is  it  ot 
importance  that  man  repudiates  such  nature  ;    that 
he  accepts  a  nature  of  his  own  at  the  hands  of  the 
anthropomorphic  theos  of  his  own  imagination,  or 
that  he  would  prefer  a  nature  of  play  to  a  nature  o 
work   or  a  pleasure    garden    to  a  workshop.     And 
that  man  is  of  nature  in   that  he  exhibits  no  origi- 
nating powers ;  that  in  being  and  not  of  the  nature  ot 
the  word  of  God  it  were  necessary  that  he,  m  some 
way   originate  himself,  in  which  it   were  necessary 
that' he  not  only  originate  his  beings  but  his  motives 
to  such  beings.     But  that  while  obvious  that  he  does 
not  originate  his  beings  as  an  animal  or  the  bemgs 
of  that   animal,  as   man    it    is    equally    obvious   he 
orioinates  his  activities  but  of  motive,  and  that  he 
does  not  originate  his   motive   more  than  does  the 
ball  when  stricken  by  the  bat.     And,  such  man,  that 
he  is  at  least  of  nature,  whether  he  be  in  contmua- 
tion  of  nature  at  this  earth  or  not. 


,1 


INTRODUCTION. 


Section  VI. 


97 


And  in  Continuation  of  Nature, 

Intended  thus  that  of  nature  there  is  man,  it  is 
intended  that  man  of  nature  is  in  continuation  of  na- 
ture ;  and  in  continuation  of  nature  in  continuing 
himself  in  nature,  and  in  giving  room  and  oppor- 
tunity to  animals  and  plants,  and  in  extending  the 
axis  of  human  nature. 

And  in  continuing  himself  in  nature.  Intended 
that  there  is  an  universe  of  the  word  of  God  in 
force ;  and  that  this  is  life ;  and  that  of  this  in  evo- 
involution  there  is  nature,  of  which  are  the  stars, 
sun,  earth,  plant,  and  animal  from  the  universe  to 
inan, — each  in  evo-in volution  of  such  life  and  each 
a  nature  therefore,  and  each  such  sequent  nature 
consequence  of  antecedent  natures,  cause, — it  is 
intended  that  each  such  sequent  nature  is  in  contin- 
uation of  the  course  of  antecedent  natures  up  to  it ; 
and  that  man  is  in  continuation  of  the  nature  of  the 
animal,  and  the  animal  of  the  plant,  and  the  plant 
of  the  earth,  and  the  earth  of  the  sun,  and  the  sun 
of  the  star,  and  the  star  of  the  universe,  and  that  so 
man  is  in  continuation  of  this  earth  of  the  nature  of 
the  universe,  and  this,  simply,  in  the  continuation  of 
his  own  existence  in  nature  as  such  final  term  of 
nature  at  this  earth. 

And  that  man  is  in  continuation  of  nature  in  giv- 
ing room  and  opportunity  to  animals  and  plants.    In- 


lit 


98 


INTRODUCTION. 


INTRODUCTION. 


9'.> 


tended  that  there  is  a  dermal  appendage  o!  organic 
matter  to  this  earth,  consisting  in  phints,  animals  and 
man  :  and  the  plant  as  endoderm  and  the  animal  as 
mesoderm  ;  and  man  as  ectoderm, — it  is  intended  that 
there  is  room  for  the  endoderm  and  mesoderm  but  as 
the  ectoderm  expands  ;  and  that  the  ectoderm  can  ex- 
pand but  as  there  be  corresponding  expansions  of 
the  derms  included ;  and  that  so  man  can  enlarge 
but  as  he  enlarges  his  means  of  subsistence  and  sup- 
port ;  that  to  this  he  must  have  more  and  better  soil, 
to  more  and  better   plants,  to  more  and  better  ani- 
mals, to  more  and  better  man ;  that  this  were  giving 
room  and  opportunity  to  animals  and  plants  and, — 
these  natures,— this  were  giving  room  and  opportu- 
nity   to    natures   thus    existing   more    abundantly; 
and  that  thus  man  in  continuation  of  his  own  nature, 
simply,  is    in    continuation,   through    animals  and 
plants,  of  the  nature  of  the  earth  and  universe. 

And  that  man  is  in  continuation  of  nature  in  con- 
tinuing into  the  man  possible  the  axis  of  Ufe  in  na- 
ture from  the  axis  of  the  universe.     Intended  that 
there  is  an  univ>Brse  of  energy  in  force,  and  that  this 
is  of  life  and  nature,  and  life  cause  and  nature  con- 
sequence in  evo-involutions,  of  which  there  are  the 
stars,  suns,  and  planets,  from  the  universe  to  this 
earth  ;  a  planet  in  evo-involution  of    which  there  is 
its  crust  of  matter,  and  its  atmosphere  of  force,  and 
its  plants  and  animals    and    man; — it  is   intended 
that  there  is  a  continuous  and  unbroken  axis  of  life 
and  nature  in  reaction  ;  that  of  these  in  this  earth  the 


space  centre  is  life  and  the  crust  of  matter  nature, 
and  of  these  in  the  plant  the  staminate  principle  is 
life  and  the  pistillate  nature ;  and  of  these  in  the 
animal  the  sperm  is  life  and  the  germ  nature  ;  and 
of  these  in  man  the  man  is  life  and  the  woman  na- 
ture, and  the  parent  life  and  the  family  nature ;  and 
that  thus  there  is  an  axis  of  life  and  nature  through 
natures  possible  from  the  universe  to  man,  and  that 
man  in  continuation  of  this  axis  is  in  continuation 
of  nature ;  and  in  actual  continuation  of  nature  to 
the  man  possible  now  existing  under  the  conditions, 
and  in  potential  continuation  of  nature  to  the  man 
possible  under  possible  conditions.  And  that  man 
is  in  continuation  of  the  axis  of  beings  static  and 
dynamic  in  reaction ;  that  there  are  principles  stami- 
nate and  pistillate, — the  one  dynamic  and  the  other 
static,  and  the  one  axle  and  the  other  disk, — of  the 
plant ;  and  the  one  sperm  and  the  other  germ,  and 
the  one  dynamic  and  the  other  static,  and  the  one 
axle  and  the  other  disk,  of  the  animal ;  and  the  one 
male  and  the  other  female,  and  the  one  man  and  the 
other  woman,  and  the  one  dynamic  and  the  other 
static,  and  the  one  axle  and  the  other  disk,  of  man  ; 
and  these,  also,  the  one  parent  and  the  other  chil- 
dren in  the  familv  of  man  ;  and  these  the  one  man 
and  the  other  the  state  of  man  in  families  united  to 
their  means  of  being  best  and  most.  And  such  the 
axis  of  a  being  of  beings  dynamic  and  static  in 
reaction  that  man  of  this  is  its  ultimate  term,  and  so 
in  its  contiuuation  at  this  earth. 


100 


INTRODUCTION. 


And,— intended  that  being  dynamic  is  life  and 
being  static  nature,  relatively,  and  that  the  axis  of 
these  reacting  is  life  and  disk  nature,-itis  intended 
that  man,  so  far  as  he  yet  exists,  is  in  continuation 
of  nature,  and  that  this  is  the  nature  of  the  earth 

and  universe. 

It  is  intended  that  by  induction  of  the  phenomena 
of  the  plant  apart  from  other  beings  at  this  earth 
there  is  the  necessary  hypothesis  of  such  beings  dy- 
namic and  static  in  nature  ;  and  by  induction  of  the 
phenomena  of  the  animal  there  are  such  and  of  man 
such,  and,-this  nature,— that  there  were  plant,  ani- 
mal   and   man    successively    in    continuation    of    a 
nature,  whether  that  be  of  the   nature  of  the   earth 
and  universe  or  not.     But  by  induction  of  the  phe- 
nomena of  plant,  animal  and  man  there  is  as  neces- 
sarily the  hypothesis  of  the   axis  of  a  being  in  life 
and  nature  from  the  earth,  and  through  this  from 
the  axis  of  the  universe,  in  the  fact  that  if  there  be 
not,  the  earth,  plant,  animal  and  man  were  each  the 
miracle  of    consequence  without  antecedent   cause, 
which  man   may  not  consciously  accept;    and  that 
man,  therefore,  as  far  as  he  has  gone,  is  in  continua- 
tion of  the  axis  of  nature  in  this  earth  and  universe, 
and  this  in  the  reactions  of  naturally  differentiated 
man  upon  the  axis  of  their   neutral  beings  interme- 
diate,   the  first    being   that    of    parents,    male  and 
female,  in  production  of  children,  and  the  next  that 
of    parents   and  children  in   the   production  of  the 
family,  and  the  next  that  of  families  differentiated  in 


INTRODUCTION. 


101 


production  of  the  state.  That  of  these  phenomena, 
the  first  appears  in  the  human  family  agamic,  con- 
sisting in  children,  infant  and  adult,  about  a  store  of 
provisions  for  its  support  in  the  hands  of  its  unmar- 
ried female  parent,  and  the  next  in  the  polygamic 
family  of  the  children  of  several  mothers,  infant  and 
adult,  about  a  store  in  the  hands  of  a  single  father ; 
and  the  next  in  the  monogamic  family  of  the  chil- 
dren of  a  single  mother  about  a  store  in  the  single 
father,  each  such  family  differing  from  the  animal  or 
its  immediate  antecedent  but  in  its  capacity  for  food, 
— and  food  life,  in  its  capacity  for  life,  in  strict  anal- 
ogy to  the  cryptogamic,  phanerogamic,  endogenous 
and  exogenous  plant,  and  to  the  radiate,  annulate,  ar- 
ticulate and  vertebrate  animal,  and  to  the  fish,  reptile, 
digitigrade  and  plantigrade  of  vertebrate  animals; 
and  all, — but  the  state  of  man, — analogous  to  the 
exogenous  plant  or  the  vertebrate  animal,  which,  if 
possible,  has  not  been  yet  accomplished  ;  and  that 
man,  therefore,  to  his  state  of  monogamic  man,  is  in 
continuation  of  the  nature  of  the  earth  and  uni- 
verse in  his  continuation  to  that  extent  of  the  axis 
of  nature  from  the  universe. 

And  it  is  intended  that  he  will  yet  accomplish 
that  fourth  stage  of  man  analogous  to  the  fourth  in 
plant  and  animal,  and  this  in  the  union  of  un- 
equal races  of  man  in  relations  of  inequality.  That 
there  are  unequal  races, — in  their  abilities  at  least 
to  continue  their  existences  as  such ;  that  between 
races  so  differentiated  as  are  the  agamic  and  mono- 


102 


INTRODUCTION. 


gamic  races  there  are  affinities  analogously  the  same 
as  between  the  male  and  female  of  differentiated 
man  •  that  of  these  affinities  they  are  susceptive  of 
coincidence  and  differentiation  on  the  axis  interme- 
diate, as  are  the  male  and  female  of  sexually  differ- 
entiated man  ;  that  in  the  genesis   of  plant  or  ani- 
mal the  male  is  spore  and  the  female  nidus ;  that 
this  also  is  so  in  man ;  that  of  the  sexually  differen- 
tiated man  the  male  is  spore  and  the  female  nidus, 
and  of  the  races  of  differentiated   man  the  lower  is 
spore  to  the  higher  nidus ;  and  that  there  will  be  an 
union  of  the  unequal  races  of  unilateral  man  in  pro- 
duction  of  compound  man,  as  of  the  sexes  of  man  there 
is  union  in  production  of  the  individual  man ;  and 
that  thus  there  will  be  an  elongation  of  the  axis  of 
human  nature  as  in  the  fourth  order  of  plants  and 
animals  there  is  of  plants   and  animals,  and  thus  a 
continuation  of  nature  by  man,  not  only  to  the  pres- 
ent  man  but  to  the  man  possible. 

It  is  intended  that  there  is  not  now  in  existence  the 
man  possible ;  that  the  surface  of  the  earth  is  capa- 
ble of  supporting  thousands  to  the  one  man  upon  it 
now  and  that  in  man  there  is  the  capacity  through 
proper  methods  of  being  and  activity  to  produce  from 
the  earth's  surface  the  food  for  such  larger  popula- 
tion, and  the  larger  population  to  consume  such 
food  but  that  there  is  not  the  mode  of  man  m  ex- 
istence now  capable  of  that  denser  and  better  popu- 
lation possible  ;  that  agamic  man  is  not  so  capable 
or  polygamic    man  so  capable,  nor   is    monogamic 


INTRODDCTION. 


103 


man  so  capable ;  that  to  such  man  it  is  neces- 
sary that  there  be  not  only  the  order,  industry, 
efficiency  and  economy  possible,  but  that  there 
be  duration  to  the  existence  to  that  state  of  pos- 
sible man  indefinitely  greater  than  that  possible 
to  any  state  of  monogamic  man.  It  is  useless  to 
argue  that  any  man  lower  than  the  monogamic  is 
capable  of  becoming  the  man  possible,  and  it  is  quite 
demonstrable  that  monogamic  man  himself  is  not ; 
and  first  for  the  reason  that  there  is  not  sufficient 
duration  to  the  nature  of  such  state.  Intended  that 
the  nature  of  advancing  man  is  from  the  rupture  of 
successive  natures,  to  the  nature  ultimately  possible, 
as  is  that  of  the  plant  or  animal  advancing  to  its 
possibilities,  it  is  intended  that  in  every  state  of  mono- 
gamic man  at  its  maturity  there  are  the  pulsations 
of  unsettled  life,  and  these  from  the  proletariate 
against  the  proprietary  state. 

Intended  that  in  every  nature  there  are  life  and 
nature,  it  is  intended  that  these  in  the  monogamic 
state  of  man  are  primarily  in  the  property  of  the 
state  as  life  to  the  state  itself, — dependent  on  that 
property, — as  nature,  but  secondarily  and  more  ob- 
viously in  the  people  of  the  state  as  life  and  the  state 
itself  as  the  nature  of  that  life,  and  in  the  theory  of 
such  state  it  is  conceded  that  there  is  no  reason  why 
it  might  not  exist  indefinitely. 

The  monogamic  state  is  of  monogamic  families, 
each  of  the  children  of  a  single  mother  about  a  store 
of  provisions  in  the  hands  of  their  single  father  ;  and 


104 


INTRODUCTION. 


the  State  of  such  families  united  is  in  charge  but  of 
that  property   which  proprietary  male  parents  have 
seen  proper,  by  an  instrument  termed  a  constitution,  to 
vest  in  it  for  administration  to  the  uses  of  themselves 
and  families,  and  there  is  no  more  reason  why  even 
such  unilateral  compact  should  not  be  respected  and 
endure  perpetually.     And  if  there  were  no  change  in 
the  relations  of  such  famihes  to  each  other  and  the 
state  it  would  be  so  respected  and  would  so  endure. 
But    a  change  of  relations  must    necessarily  occur. 
Parents  originally  proprietary  must  lose  their  prop- 
erty from  indolence,  inefficiency,  vice,   calamity  or 
crime  ;  and  if  originally  there  be  provision  that  upon 
such  occurence  they  lose  their  right  to  participate 
in  the  disposition  of  the  common  property,  that  pro- 
vision will  be  withdrawn  ;  in  sequence  of  this,  adult 
males  not   parental  or  proprietary  will  acquire  the 
elective  franchise,  and  these  males  and  unpropertied 
parents  will  constitute  a  majority  to  elect  represent- 
atives to  the  legislature,  with  the  power  to  dispose 
to  their  uses  of  the  common  property,  and  with  power 
to  draw  by  taxes  indetinitely  the  property  of  others 
to  their  uses,  and  to  inaugurate,  in  fact,  a  game  of 
pohtical  poker,  at  which  the  players  may  call  upon 
others  to  put  up  the  stakes.     Upon  such  conditions 
the  government  by  imposts  will  be  made  to  favor  the 
interests   of   some  at    the    expense    of   others,  and 
by  internal  improvements  to  favor  some  sections  at 
the  expense  of  others,  and  there  will  come  to  be 
millionaires  to  invest  in  non-taxable  securities  of  the 


INTRODUCTION. 


105 


government ;  taxable  property  will  be  without  holders ; 
wage-earners  will  demand  more  money  for  less  time  ; 
all  will  demand  that  the  state  shall  educate  their  chil- 
dren and  give  employment  to  those  without  it,  and 
support  the  helpless,  vicious  and  criminal  classes, 
and  generally,  upon  even  manhood  suffrage  simply, 
the  government  will  be  made  a  car  of  progress 
upon  which  all  will  ride  and  which  none  will  pull ; 
and,  in  result  of  this,  property  will  cease  to  exist,  and 
the  state  not  able  to  survive  property,  there  will  be 
an  end  to  that  state  as  certainly  as  to  the  individ- 
ual man  whose  muscular  and  nervous  tissues  are  dis- 
continuous from  disease  or  age.  But  if  by  possi- 
bility in  any  case  this  be  not  so  from  adult  manhood 
suffrage  simply,  the  deterioration  would  go  on,  and 
first  adult  women  would  be  allowed  to  vote,  and 
then  children,  male  and  female  ;  and  children  di- 
vorced from  parents  would  start  life  without  employ- 
ments or  capacity  of  performance,  and  women,  forced 
to  make  a  living  for  themselves,  would  become  re- 
gardless of  their  obligation  to  continue  the  race  of 
man,  and  the  race  of  that  state  of  man  would  stop  and 
the  race  and  state  both  cease  to  exist. 

It  is  intended  that  in  every  monogamic  state,  from 
want  of  naturally  different  contracting  parties,  the 
constitution,  so  called,  is  necessarily  an  unilateral 
instrument  to  mean  but  that  the  power  to  interpret 
it  would  have  it  mean  ;  and  as  such  is  not  more 
potent  in  determining  the  action  of  the  state  than 
are  the  resolutions  of  the  sobered  man  that  he  will 
not  a^ain  jjet  drunk. 


106 


INTRODUCTION. 


But  it  is  intended  that  in  the  union  of  races  suffi- 
ciently unequal,  so  that  the  one  has  the  abiUty  to 
execute  more  than  it  can  plan  and  the  other  the 
ability  to  plan  more  than  it  can  execute,  there  is  the 
assurance  of  its  duration  in  the  fact  that  in  such 
state  there  can  never  be  the  proletariate. 

It  is  intended  that  every  monogamic  state  is  either 
patriate  or  proletariate  ;  that  at  its  start  it  is  patri- 
ate in  its  government  by  appointment  of  the  propri- 
etary male  parents  of  the  families  involved,  which 
government  must  act  for  those  appointing  it  and  as 
such  be  patriate,  but  that  from  the  instant  of  its  start 
it  tends  to  the  proletariate. 

It  is  intended  that  the  proletariate  is  that  portion 
of  the  population  of  any  state  who  would  not  sup- 
port the  state   but  who  would  be  supported  by  it ; 
that  of  this  are   those  who   have   the  elective   fran- 
chise without  the  property  to  be  affected  by  legisla- 
tion, and  that  of  these  are  the  parents  who   from 
misadventure,  indolence  or  vice   are   without  prop- 
erty, and  the  adult  males  of  families  whose  proper- 
ties are  yet  it  in  the  hands  of  male  parents.     That 
these  also  are  proletariate  who  would  have  the  gov- 
ernment, by  imposts  or  bounties,  favor  their  inter- 
ests at  the  expense  of  others,  and  those  who,  what- 
ever their  wealth,  will  not  invest  in  taxable  property, 
and  all  generally  who  would  rather  ride  than  pull 
the  Juggernaut,  including  children  who  would  like 
to  be  rid  of  parents  and  parents  who  w^ould  be  rid 
of  children,  and  women  and  men  who   would  sup- 


INTRODUCTION. 


107 


press  their  sexual  propensities  or  indulge  them  with- 
out contributing  to  the  continuation  of  their  race. 

Such  the  proletariate  to  which  the  originally  pa- 
triate state  tends,  it  is  intended  that  the  dissolution 
is  at  an  early  period  inevitable  ;  that  the  tendency 
is  not  to  make  man  better  but  to  make  him  worse  ; 
and  not  to  make  him  continually  more  abundant  in 
any  state,  but  to  extinguish  his  existence  as  from 
such  cause  has  been  extinguished  the  ancient  peo- 
ples, Nineveh,  Babylon,   Egypt,  Greece  and  Borne. 

And  intended  that  the  man  possible  is  the  best 
and  most  abundant  man  possible,  it  is  intended  that 
for  reason  of  the  proletariate,  that  man  is  not  possi- 
ble in  the  monogamic  mode  of  man ;  but  it  is  in- 
tended that  he  is  possible  in  a  compound  mode  of 
unequal  races  of  man  united  in  relations  of  inequality  ; 
that  such  are  the  agamic  and  monogamic  races  suf- 
ficiently differentiated ;  that  such  are  the  agamic  ne- 
groes and  monogamic  and  Anglo-Saxon  whites  lately 
in  union  in  these  Southern  States  ;  that  between  races 
so  different  there  is  no  miscegenation  ;  that  both, 
however  they  may  severally  advance  to  higher  planes 
of  manhood,  are  relatively,  to  each  other,  on  parallel 
planes,  and  the  same  as  at  the  start,  and  as  man  and 
woman  in  union,  however  they  may  advance  severally 
through  ages  of  civilization,  are  in  the  same  relations 
to  each  other.  Of  such  state  originally  patriate  there 
is  no  transition  to  the  proletariate.  The  state  of  two 
such  naturally  differentiated  beings  there  is  the  bi- 
lateral being,  capable  of  a  bilateral  constitution  of 


108 


INTRODUCTION. 


perpetual  duration,  and  susceptive  of  instant  en- 
forcement, in  the  injury  to  individual  activity  result- 
ing from  every  instance  of  its  violation.  In  this  there 
were  none  to  become  proletariate,  or  to  ride  upon 
the  state,  or  to  misdirect  it,  or  to  suspend  the  repro- 
duction of  its  population.  Early  marriages  of  whites 
and  blacks  were  possible,  and  encouraged,  as  well  as 
the  most  abundant  progeny.  And  it  is  intended 
that  in  such  state  there  is  the  possibility  of  the  best 
and  most  abundant  man ;  and  not  only  in  this,  the 
tendency  to  such  abundant  man,  but,  in  the  indefinite 
duration  of  such  state,  the  time  for  the  maturity  of 
such  man ;  that,  in  this,  man  will  not  only  continue 
the  axis  of  nature  as  he  now  does  in  continuing  him- 
self in  nature,  but  will  continue  that  axis  to  a  higher 
stage  of  human  nature,  and  so  in  every  sense  con- 
tinue nature. 

And  intended  that  there  is  to  be  the  man  possible, 
it  is  intended  that  thus  there  will  be  the  man  possi- 
ble in  continuation  of   nature,   and   of   a   nature   of 
reality  throughout  the  universe  ;  and  this  the  nature 
of  infinite  being  finite ;  and  this  the   nature   of    the 
word  of  God  in  force  ;  and  this  the  nature  of  a  gen- 
eral providence  of  life  in  nature  to  the   takers  of  it 
possible,  and  these  the  stars,  suns,  planets,  moons, 
meteorites,  nebul*  and  comets  of  the  celestial  sphere ; 
and  the  forces,  matters,  plants,  animals    and    man 
at  this  earth's  surface  ;  and  this  the  nature  of  a  gen- 
eral providence  of  life  in  nature  to  the  takers  of  it 
possible.     That  to  every  such  nature  there  is  in  its 
life  and  nature   the  mandate   that   at  its   time   and 


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place  it  be  its  best  and  most,  and  this  simply  to 
man  ;  that  at  his  time  and  place  he  can  be  but  the 
man  possible,  and  can  see  himself  but  as  the  man 
possible,  and  can  see  other  natures  but  as — at  their 
times  and  places — they  be  the  natures  possible  ;  that 
he  has  being  but  of  life,  and  nature  and  volition  but 
in  being,  and  activity  but  of  volition,  and  volition 
but  of  motive,  and  motive  but  of  conditions  inci- 
dent, wdthout  which  the  strongest  and  wisest  man 
were  as  inert  as  is  the  watch  unwound ;  and, — in  his 
utmost  capacities  from  conditions  incident, — he  is  as 
incapable  of  seeing  or  making  other  natures  differ- 
ent from  what  they  are  as  is  the  watch  of  seeing  or 
making  other  watches  different  from  what  they  are  ; 
and  that  thus  there  is  not  only  in  fact  but  to  the 
science  of  man  a  nature  of  reality  in  life  through- 
out the  universe  of  which  man  is  in  continuation  at 
this  earth.  And  this  the  nature  of  an  universe  of 
force  in  resolution,  and  this  the  nature  of  God  him- 
self in  forces  of  such  universe,  and  this  the  nature 
of  religion  in  acceptance  and  practice  by  every  na- 
ture of  the  word  and  will  of  God  in  force.  And  that 
thus  man  is  in  continuation  of  a  nature  of  reality 
throughout  the  universe  by  deduction  from  the  hy- 
pothesis of  an  universe  of  force  the  finite  word  of 
God  ;  and  this  that  impersonal  and  transcendent 
cause  and  God  to  man  as  to  other  nature  of  this 
universe,  demanding  that  he  be  his  most  and  best 
and  that  he  submit  to  the  inequalities  necessary  to 
that  end,  as  do  lives  in  natures  of  animal,  plant, 
earth  and  universe. 


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